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
Couldn't agree more.
绝对同意。
In his work, Albert comes in touch with many beautiful objects.
在工作上,阿尔博特会接触到许多美丽的事物。
Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the course of world history.