Snip
[snɪp]
解释:
(noun.) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
(verb.) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; 'dress the plants in the garden'.
欧文录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
(n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
(n.) A small shred; a bit cut off.
(n.) A share; a snack.
(n.) A tailor.
(n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
录入:凯思琳
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Clip, cut, nip, nip off.
n. Clip, bit, cut, shred, fragment, piece.
丹整理
解释:
v.t. to cut off at once with scissors: to cut off the nib of: to cut off: to make signs with as the fingers:—pr.p. snip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. snipped.—n. a single cut with scissors: a clip or small shred: a share snack: a tailor.—ns. Snip′per one who snips a tailor; Snip′per-snap′per a little trifling fellow; Snip′pet a little piece snipped off.—adj. Snip′pety trivial fragmentary.—n. Snip′ping a clipping.—adj. Snip′py fragmentary: stingy.—n.pl. Snips a pair of strong hand-shears for sheet-metal.—n. Snip′-snap tart dialogue with quick replies.—adj. (Shak.) quick short.
校对:普拉特
例句:
- So I am; but it is only a snip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The busy little dressmaker quickly snipped the shirt away, and laid bare the results of as furious and sound a thrashing as even Mr Fledgeby merited. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- His mother was snipping dead leaves from the window-plants. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Two girls were posing and he cut their silhouettes together, snipping very fast and looking at them, his head on one side. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It's not work, cutting out a pattern isn't,' said Miss Jenny, with her busy little scissors already snipping at some paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
录入:皮埃尔