Snipe

[snaɪp]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a gunshot from a concealed location.

(noun.) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks.

(verb.) hunt or shoot snipe.

埃斯蒂斯整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

(n.) A fool; a blockhead.

校對:苏西

解釋/意思:

n. the name of a genus (Gallinago) and of a family (Scolopacid) of birds order Grall having a long straight flexible bill frequenting marshy places all over Europe: a fool: a simpleton: (U.S.) a half-smoked cigar picked up on the street: a long bill or account.

v.i. to pick off stealthily by a long rifle-shot as from the surrounding hills into a camp &c.—n. Snīp′ing the foregoing practice.

整理:莱克格斯