Maul
[mɔːl] or [mɔl]
解释:
(noun.) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
(verb.) injure badly by beating.
(verb.) split (wood) with a maul and wedges.
手打:斯蒂芬--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
(v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
(v. t.) To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
整理:塔尼娅
同义词及近义词:
n. [Written also Mall.] Beetle, heavy mallet.
v. a. [Written also Mall.] Beat, bruise.
哈伦校对
解释:
v.t. to beat with a mall or a heavy stick: to injure greatly by beating.—n. a heavy wooden hammer: a struggle for the ball in football when it has been carried across the goal-line but has not yet been touched down.
校对:露辛达
例句:
- Christian, maul down the victuals from corner-cupboard if canst reach, man, and I'll draw a drap o' sommat to wet it with. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Wildeve turned the light eagerly upon the spot where Venn had found the box, and mauled the herbage right and left. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The one who had been mauled, he answered readily, and I'll swear I saw him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The third vision was of an unburied body, swollen, eyeless, mauled by passing birds and beasts and altogether terrible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- How is your friend Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite, after the mauling he got from the rogues in Northumberland Street? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
校对:米里亚姆