Pluck
[plʌk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord.
(verb.) strip of feathers; 'pull a chicken'; 'pluck the capon'.
(verb.) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; 'he plucked the strings of his mandolin'.
(verb.) pull or pull out sharply; 'pluck the flowers off the bush'.
錄入:赛斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To pull; to draw.
(v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
(v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.
(v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
(n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
(n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
(n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
(n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
(v. t.) The lyrie.
手打:洛雷塔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Pull (quickly), twitch, snatch, jerk, yerk.
n. Spirit, courage, resolution, manhood, indomitableness, backbone, determination, energy, force, mettle, nerve, hardihood, force of character, strength of will.
卡尔文校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to pull off or away: to snatch: to strip as a fowl of its feathers: (slang) to reject an examinee as inefficient.—n. a single act of plucking.—n. Pluck′er.—Pluck off (Shak.) to abate from the rank; Pluck up to pull out by the roots: to summon up as courage.
n. the heart liver and lungs of an animal—hence heart courage spirit.—adjs. Plucked Pluck′y having pluck or spirit.—adv. Pluck′ily.—n. Pluck′iness.
校對:塔玛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If there's the pluck of a man among you three, you'll help me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- They pluck his feathers now and then and clip his wings, but he sings, he sings! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- However,' said Fledgeby, appearing to pluck up his spirits, 'we'll hope it's not so bad as that comes to. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Or haven't you pluck enough to go on? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Still, in spite of this latent weakness of character, which always developed itself in time of trouble, he was a brave man, with plenty of pluck. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I suppose,' with a jerk, 'you have sometimes plucked a pear before it was ripe, Master Copperfield? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She plucked and tore at her arms for a little time; but I held her hands, and she soon dropped off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Able men who have passed their examinations will do these things sometimes, not less than the plucked Fred. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Her rich black hair was all about her face, her face was flushed and hot, and as she sobbed and raged, she plucked at her lips with an unsparing hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He's only been plucked twice--so was I--but he's had the advantages of Oxford and a university education. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- By Gad, sir, he explained to the public in general, what a good plucked one that boy of mine is--what a trump he is! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He had plucked it off again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Instead of that, said I, plucking up more grass and chewing a blade or two, see how I am going on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Instruments in which the strings are set into motion by plucking--harp, guitar, mandolin. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- You're a woman,' retorted Brittles, plucking up a little. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
手打:曼弗雷德