Cudgel
['kʌdʒ(ə)l] or ['kʌdʒl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
(v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
柯蒂斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Club, bludgeon.
v. a. Cane, drub, thrash, baste, beat with a cudgel.
錄入:泽维尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pound, bruise, buffet, batter
ANT:Stroke, pat, clap, tickle
手打:利蒂希娅
解釋/意思:
n. a heavy staff: a club.—v.t. to beat with a cudgel:—pr.p. cud′gelling; pa.p. cud′gelled.—ns. Cud′geller; Cud′gelling.—adj. Cud′gel-proof not to be hurt by beating.—Take up the cudgels to engage in a contest.
錄入:凯文
例句/造句/用法:
- Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He was now too close upon me for the cudgel to prove of any effective assistance, so I merely threw it as heavily as I could at his advancing bulk. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I kept straight on, with my cudgel ready in my hand, my ears on the alert, and my eyes straining to see through the mist and the darkness. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I got on his back, with my cudgel in my mouth, seized the parapet with both hands, and was instantly on the roof. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is true I held the cudgel, but what could I do with it against his four great arms? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- This other, which was evidently its mate, soon came toward us, bearing a mighty stone cudgel with which it evidently intended to brain me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Cudgel your brains for an expedient. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands; And clowns come crowding on, with cudgels in their hands. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavor to find some explanation which would cover all these facts. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I cudgelled my brains to find some possible explanation. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
編輯:韦斯利