Caper
['keɪpə] or ['kepɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a playful leap or hop.
(noun.) a crime (especially a robbery); 'the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis'.
(noun.) pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces.
(noun.) any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
(verb.) jump about playfully.
整理:伊冯--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
(n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.
(n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.
(n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
(n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.
迪尔德丽手打
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Leap (in a frolicsome mood), hop, skip, jump, bound, romp, gambol, frisk, dance.
n. Leap (in a frolicsome mood), skip, hop, spring, bound, gambol, romp, prank, freak.
斐迪南整理
解释:
n. the pickled flower-bud of the caper-shrub much grown in Sicily. It has an agreeable pungency of taste with a slight bitterness and is much used in sauces along with boiled mutton &c.—n. Cā′per-tea a black tea with a knotty curled leaf.
v.i. to leap or skip like a goat: to dance in a frolicsome manner.—n. a leap: a prank.—n. Cā′perer a dancer.—To cut a caper to dance or act fantastically.
编辑:耶鲁
娱乐性解释:
A foot in the air.
阿维斯整理
例句:
- Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Jip would bark and caper round us, and go on before, and look back on the landing, breathing short, to see that we were coming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The greengrocer and his wife then arranged upon the table a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and potatoes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- At least we ate as much of it as was done, and made up with capers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I like to fly about and cut capers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- We eats our biled mutton without capers, and don't care for horse-radish ven ve can get beef. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Don't go prancing and capering about! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He capered among the mob like a very maniac. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
校对:凯特