raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward
使弓起;使隆起(肩部)
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he thrust his hands in his pockets, hunching his shoulders 他双手插在口袋中,耸着肩
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[no obj.]
he hunched over his glass .他俯向他的玻璃酒杯。
[no obj.]bend one's body into a huddled position
团起身子
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I hunched up as small as I could .我尽量把身子缩成一团。
a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts
基于直觉的想法;预感
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she was acting on a hunch .她是在凭直觉行动。
a humped position or thing
肉峰;隆肉
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the hunch of his back .他背上的肉峰。
〈主方〉 厚片,大块
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a hunch of bread .一大块面包。
" late 15th cent.: of unknown origin. The original meaning was ‘push, shove' (noun and verb), a sense retained now in Scots as a noun, and in US dialect as a verb. Sense 1 of the noun derives probably from a US sense of the verb ‘nudge someone in order to draw attention to something’."