Nip
[nɪp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a small sharp bite or snip.
(noun.) a tart spicy quality.
(noun.) a small drink of liquor; 'he poured a shot of whiskey'.
(verb.) give a small sharp bite to; 'The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles'.
(verb.) sever or remove by pinching or snipping; 'nip off the flowers'.
巴雷特校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
(v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
(v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
(v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
(v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
(n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
(n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
(n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
(n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
(n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
(n.) A short turn in a rope.
整理:罗威娜
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Pinch, compress, squeeze, gripe.[2]. Clip, cut off.[3]. Blast, bite, destroy, ruin.
n. [1]. Pinch, bite.[2]. Bit, small cut.[3]. [Low.] Dram, nipper, sip, drink.
整理:弗娜
解釋/意思:
v.t. to pinch: to press between two surfaces: to cut off the edge: to check the growth or vigour of: to destroy: to bite sting satirise:—pr.p. nip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. nipped.—n. a pinch: a seizing or closing in upon: a cutting off the end: a blast: destruction by frost: (min.) a more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum: (naut.) a short turn in a rope the part of a rope at the place bound by the seizing or caught by jambing.—ns. Nip′-cheese a stingy fellow: (naut.) the purser's steward; Nip′per he who or that which nips: one of various tools or implements like pincers: one of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs: a chela or great claw as of a crab: the young bluefish: a boy who attends on navvies: (obs.) a thief: one of the four fore-teeth of a horse: (pl.) small pincers.—v.t. to seize (two ropes) together.—adv. Nip′pingly.—Nip in the bud to cut off in the earliest stage.
n. a sip esp. of spirits—also Nip′per (U.S.).—v.i. to take a dram.—n. Nip′perkin a small measure of liquor.
克拉丽斯編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Something bracing from without or within When felt in the air, it's a frost. When found in a glass, a life saver.
手打:洛葛仙妮
例句/造句/用法:
- He'd better nip his little passion in the bud, hadn't he? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Mrs Yolland sat down opposite to him, and gave him his nip. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Our client wants me to look at some Italian gardens before we settle anything, and has asked me to nip over on the next boat. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- When it was done, he laid it aside and a dog walked sadly in and nipped it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I dare say, if he had told me his doubts at the first I could have nipped them in the bud. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- If they had known the various tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, I told you so. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He had nipped in the bud the possible meeting between Eustacia and her old lover this very night. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I've just heard of old Mrs. Mingott's stroke; and as I was on my way to the house I saw you turning down this street and nipped after you. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Formerly, the opening machines were simply cylinders armed with spikes, to which the cotton was led through nipping rollers, and then delivered in a loose, fluffy condition. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And then the lockjaw closes down and nips off a couple of the last syllables--but they taste good. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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