ninepin
n
1 ninepins [sing v]
game in which a ball is rolled along the floor at nine bottle-shaped blocks of wood in order to knock them down 九柱地滚球(沿地面滚球撞击九根瓶状木柱的游戏). Cf 参看 skittle, tenpin bowling.
2 [C] any of these blocks of wood (九柱地滚球的)瓶状木柱.
3 (idm习语) ,go down like `ninepins fall or be knocked over, etc in great numbers (大量地)倒下, 打翻
There's a lot of flu about people are going down (ie catching the disease) like ninepins. 流感正在蔓延--传染的人越来越多.
🗣️ 情景例句
You'll see the chicken house.
你会看到鸡舍。
Her name has slipped from my mind.
我想不起她的名字了。
But neither psychiatric interviews nor objective tests were able to show any effects upon these American sailors.