also hair-pin, 1788 (two words), from hair + pin (n.). A hairpin turn, etc., is from 1906. Hairpin (or clothespin) was American English slang for "person" c. 1880-1910, especially in the expression "That's the kind of hairpin I am."
双语例句
1. The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.
这条路上急转弯、坡道和死拐角一个接一个。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The roads twist round hairpin bends.
道路呈U字形蜿蜒曲折。
来自柯林斯例句
3. There are eighteen hairpin bends on the way up Mogan Mountain.
莫干山上下都是一十八盘.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. I executed the hairpin turn high on the sheer western face of the mountains.
我在山脉西侧陡峭的高处成功地急转弯。
来自柯林斯例句
5. Hairpin turns force the car to crawl at 10 miles an hour in some places.
