Bent

(noun.) a special way of doing something; 'he had a bent for it'; 'he had a special knack for getting into trouble'; 'he couldn't get the hang of it'.

(noun.) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; 'the set of his mind was obvious'.

(noun.) an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges.

(noun.) grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.

(adj.) of metal e.g.; 'bent nails'; 'a car with a crumpled front end'; 'dented fenders' .

(adj.) fixed in your purpose; 'bent on going to the theater'; 'dead set against intervening'; 'out to win every event' .

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• The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Rinaldi bent it more. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I was bent on writing to Ponsonby. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Boultby heard and deliberated with bent brow and protruded under lip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I bent over the body, and took in my hand the edge of his cloak, less altered in appearance than the human frame it clothed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When a ray of light passes from water or glass into air, the refracted ray is bent away from the perpendicular so that the angle of refraction is greater than the angle of incidence. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• She bent her head slightly, without looking at him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is not to be inferred, however, from some of the preceding statements that the boy was of an exclusively studious bent of mind. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Thus for ten days Little Dorrit bent over his pillow, laying her cheek against his. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I bent my head: I sat thinking an hour longer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We indiscriminately employ children of different bents on the same exercises; their education destroys the special bent and leaves a dull uniformity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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