Rat
[ræt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
(noun.) a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure.
(verb.) catch rats, especially with dogs.
(verb.) give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat.
(verb.) employ scabs or strike breakers in.
(verb.) desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage.
珍妮特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
(n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
(n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
(v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
(v. i.) To catch or kill rats.
編輯:苏珊娜
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Desert one's party (from interested motives), bolt.
編輯:卢克
解釋/意思:
n. an animal of the genus Mus larger and more destructive than the mouse: a renegade turncoat: a workman who accepts lower than the authorised wages who declines to join in a strike or who takes a striker's work: a roll of anything used to puff out the hair which is turned over it.—v.i. (coll.) to desert one's party and join their opponents for gain or power: to take lower than current wages to refuse to join in a strike to take a striker's place:—pr.p. rat′ting; pa.p. and pa.t. rat′ted.—ns. Rat′-catch′er one whose business it is to catch rats; Rat′-catch′ing; Rat′-hole (print.) a pigeon-hole; Rat′-pit an enclosure where rats are killed; Rat′-poi′son a preparation of arsenic; Rat's′-bane poison for rats: arsenious acid; Rat′-tail an excrescence growing on a horse's leg.—adj. Rat′-tailed having a tail like a rat.—ns. Rat′ter a terrier which catches rats; Rat′tery apostasy; Rat′ting deserting one's principles: working for less than the usual prices: setting a dog to kill rats in a pit; Rat′-trap a trap for catching rats.—Rat-tailed larva the larva of certain syrphid flies.—Smell a rat to have a suspicion.
亚伯拉罕手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of rats, denotes that you will be deceived, and injured by your neighbors. Quarrels with your companions is also foreboded. To catch rats, means you will scorn the baseness of others, and worthily outstrip your enemies. To kill one, denotes your victory in any contest. See Mice.
吉恩編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Leave this island before nightfall, or, by heaven, I will have you drowned like the rat you are! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- They were so placed that when a rat passed over them the fore feet on the one plate and the hind feet on the other completed the circuit and the rat departed this life, electrocuted. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Well, now, let us see where this rat has been lurking. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- What about the other fortnight that you've left me lying here, like a sick rat in his hole? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Look at the rat! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And yet he was somewhere indomitable and separate, like a quick, vital rat. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The rat-faced one now called to the men who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The rats will devour the mixture and then drink, whereupon the plaster, brought into contact with the water, will become solid and like a stone in their stomachs, which will cause their deaths. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Can rats walk down stairs, and come walking through the entry, and open a door when you've locked it and set a chair against it? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Killing rats was I? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Mr. Pitt had very nearly made him; but he ratted always at the wrong time. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
校對:玛拉