Their guide halted at the foot of a ladder, raised his hand perpendicularly, then darted it horizontally forward.

向导在一架梯子旁边停住了，用手垂直一举，然后向水平方向一挥。

A few columns of smoke mounted perpendicularly into the windless air and were lost.

没有风，几缕炊烟笔直地升上来，消失了。

Lenina, meanwhile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station.

此时列宁娜已经望着别处。她正垂直俯瞰着单轨火车站。

In some experiments, the arm's movement was stopped short by DNA strands sticking up perpendicularly from the platform.

在一些实验中，手臂的运动被从平台上垂直竖起的 DNA 链短暂地停止了。

In its place was sky and boundless atmosphere; and perpendicularly down beneath them—small and far off—lay the corrugated surface of the Atlantic.

取而代之的是天空和无边无际的大气； 在它们的正下方——又小又远——是大西洋波纹状的表面。

Resting it edgewise on the forge, he supported it perpendicularly with one hand, wiping his face with the handkerchief he held in the other.

他将它沿边缘搁在锻炉上， 用一只手垂直支撑它， 用另一只手拿着的手帕擦脸。

Instead of beams that are loaded perpendicularly, arch bridges use a curved element to transfer the weight of the bridge to the substructure using almost entirely compressive forces.

拱桥不是垂直加载的梁，而是使用弯曲元件， 几乎完全利用压缩力将桥梁的重量转移到下部结构。

In this manner hours passed without further interruption. The moon reached the zenith, and shed its mild light perpendicularly on the lovely sight of the sisters slumbering peacefully in each other's arms.

就这样，几个小时过去了，没有再中断。月亮升上了天顶，柔和的光直射在姐妹俩相拥而眠的可爱景象上。