Trice

(verb.) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope.

(verb.) raise with a line; 'trice a window shade'.

编辑:桑德拉

• There are but three seams; you may do them in a trice. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• In a trice Mr. Bucket snaps a handcuff on her wrist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You'll be up in a trice, he observed, by way of saying something. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He hated the sight of her rough bulk, and dreaded the contact of her hard hands; but she taught him docility in a trice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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