Rap
[ræp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged.
(noun.) voluble conversation.
(noun.) a gentle blow.
(verb.) talk volubly.
(verb.) strike sharply; 'rap him on the knuckles'.
(verb.) perform rap music.
格雷戈里錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
(v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
(v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
(v.) To hasten.
(v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
(v.) To exchange; to truck.
(n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
手打:柴门霍夫
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Knock, stroke, pat, thump, thwack, small blow.
v. a. Strike (suddenly), knock, THWACK, WHACK.
錄入:罗兰
解釋/意思:
v.t. to seize and carry off: to transport out of one's self: to affect with rapture:—pr.p. rap′ping; pa.p. rapped or rapt.
n. a sharp blow: a knock or a sound made by knocking: a counterfeit coin current in Ireland for a halfpenny in the time of George I.—hence 'Not worth a rap.'—v.t. and v.i. to strike with a quick blow: to knock: to utter sharply as to rap out a lie: to swear falsely:—pr.p. rap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. rapped.—n. Rap′per one who raps: a door-knocker.
卡特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Vholes gives it a rap, and it sounds as hollow as a coffin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A rap at the door startled him in this occupation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pip's rap, I heard her say, immediately; come in, Pip. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In the very meridian of the night's enjoyment, about an hour after tea, a rap was heard at the door. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As soon as the waves cease, the hammer gives its last rap, and the tube is left in the decohered condition ready for the next transmission of waves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I give this here bell a rap with this here hammer, and you go on along the passage till you meet somebody. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- At this very moment a thundering rap at the door was heard. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- There was no answer, and Mrs. Mingott rapped impatiently with her stick on the shiny floor. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I held up my precious book before him; I rapped the open page impressively with my forefinger. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I sat up in bed and rapped my knuckles against the rail to make certain that I was truly awake. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The leader rapped upon it with the hilt of his sword--three quick, sharp blows, a pause, then three more, another pause, and then two. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- First I taught them that they could not unseat me, and even rapped them sharply between the ears to impress upon them my authority and mastery. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Before he had quite undressed, Mrs. Abel rapped at the door; he opened it an inch, so that he could hear her speak low. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- P'raps they wouldn't do it if I wos to go myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- P'raps they're sent as a consolation, if we only know'd it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- P'raps he'd resign if you disappinted him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Wot I was a-thinkin on, Mr. Sangsby, proceeds Jo, wos, as you wos able to write wery large, p'raps? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If you was writin' to her, p'raps you'd recollect to say that Barkis was willin'; would you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- P'raps you'd so fur obleege me, learned governor, as tell him that if he don't come precious soon, I'll look him up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- P'raps he might ha' throw'd a small light on that 'ere liver complaint as we wos a-speakin' on, just now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She arose, but before she had time to get out of the room a loud rapping began upon the front door. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- While he was gone another rapping came to the door. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Anselmo and Fernando were still shaking the snow from their jackets, beating their trousers and rapping their feet against the wall by the entrance. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
布丽奇特編輯