Sharper
['ʃɑːpə] or ['ʃɑrpɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
黛博拉校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Cheat, rogue, swindler, trickster, shark, knave, blackleg, slyboots, jockey, SHYSTER, artful fellow.
布什校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I have felt something sharper than cold. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, A thoughtful man. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The Spaniards built these watchtowers on the hills to enable them to keep a sharper lookout on the Moroccan speculators. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I never saw a sharper lad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- She was always dangling and ogling after him, I recollect now; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The edges of the lower mandible are serrated with teeth much more prominent, coarser and sharper than in the duck. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They thus make a sharper shadow than when radiating from the more extended surface of the glass. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- One would have the sails trimmed sharper than another, so that they seemed to have no certain rule to govern by. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And now sharper feelings came shooting through her heart, whether pain or pleasure she could hardly tell. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I say you are a--a---- A man sharper than my neighbour. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Yes, a man sharper than my neighbour; a regular sharper! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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