clotheslines

英 [ˈkləʊðzlaɪnz]

美

n. 晒衣绳; 私人事情；家丑; 平直球
clothesline的复数

N-COUNT 晾衣绳
A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
1. He hung his clothes out to dry on the clothesline across the doorway.
  他把衣服挂在门口的晾衣绳上晾干。

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Sometimes at night, I wished I could be back prowling the forest, spooking sleeping birds from their roosts, stealing clothes from clotheslines, and making merry, rather than en-during page after page of homework and fretting about my peers.
有时候在晚上，我盼望自己能回到森林中漫游，吓唬睡在窝里的鸟儿，从晾衣绳上偷衣服，找乐子，而不是一页一页地做家庭作业，为我的同学们烦心。
Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.
卡恩。夫琳斯正在她的18世纪式农舍屋外晾晒她的衣服，把他们晾在树木之间的晒衣绳上。尽管她知道这个行为会引起当地官员的不满，而且之前她已经收到勒令停止的警告。
Though clotheslines are banned, clothes may be draped over a fence.
虽然禁用晒衣绳，但衣服却可晒在篱笆上。