Hitch

(noun.) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.

(noun.) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.

(noun.) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.

(verb.) to hook or entangle; 'One foot caught in the stirrup'.

(verb.) connect to a vehicle: 'hitch the trailer to the car'.

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• When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Now for the hitch in Jane's character, he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Miss Wren, with her usual expressive hitch, went on with her work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Right or wrong,' muttered Miss Wren, inaudibly, with a visible hitch of her chin, 'I mean to do it, and you may make up your mind to THAT, old lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This little hitch did not affect the final success of the scheme. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hitch your wagon to a star, said Emerson. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Not,' she added with the quaint hitch of her chin and eyes, 'that you need be a very wonderful godmother to do that deed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She had an elfin chin that was capable of great expression; and whenever she gave this look, she hitched this chin up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When you come down-stairs into the kitchen with the candle in your hand, and hitched my apron off my head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr Boffin hitched up a chair, and added his broad brown right hand to the heap. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What is inherently repulsive is endured for the sake of averting something still more repulsive or of securing a gain hitched on by others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He only needed to be hitched on, he needed that his hand should be set to the task, because he was so unconscious. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I asked to have him hitched to a farm wagon and we would soon see whether he would work. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They were then led out, harnessed by force and hitched to the wagon in the position they had to keep ever after. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Newcomen and Watt had not then demonstrated that steam was not unconquerable, but the hitching it to the slow barge and the rapid car was yet to come. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Den Uncle Peter mus'n't sit in it, cause he al'ays hitches when he gets a singing. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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