杠杆 | gàng gǎn | lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage | |
杠子 | gàng zi | thick bar; solid carrying pole | |
双杠 | shuāng gàng | parallel bars (gymnastics event) | |
抬杠 | tái gàng | to bicker; to argue for the sake of arguing; to carry on poles (together with sb else); to carry a coffin on poles | |
单杠 | dān gàng | bar; bold line; horizontal bar (gymnastics event) |
1 | Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening? | |
2 | She crossed out all the superfluous words and phrases in the draft. | |
3 | They made two gold rings below the molding-two on opposite sides-to hold the poles used to carry it. | |
4 | It didn't matter to me that some friends had new Sting-Rays straight from the Schwinn factory. Or even that my dad put the sissy bar on backward, which exposed me to some teasing before we fixed it. | |
5 | They cast bronze rings to hold the poles for the four corners of the bronze grating. |