Weapon
['wep(ə)n] or ['wɛpən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; 'he was licensed to carry a weapon'.
(noun.) a means of persuading or arguing; 'he used all his conversational weapons'.
編輯:勒罗伊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
(n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.
(n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
戴夫校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Instrument, implement, utensil, arm
ANT:Shift, makeshift, contrivance
沙琳編輯
解釋/意思:
n. any instrument or organ of offence or defence.—adjs. Weap′oned; Weap′onless having no weapons.—n. Weap′on-salve a salve supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Oh, I am very glad that your father had the good fortune to obtain a weapon. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- With graceful modesty each gentleman retired a step from the presented weapon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Since then the revolver has become a great weapon in both private and public warfare. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But this blow was delivered with such violence that the head of the weapon sank deep into the wall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Riderhood had looked hard at his hands and his pockets, apparently as a precautionary measure lest he should have any weapon about him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop, which was his favourite weapon. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I think that killing a man with an automatic weapon makes it easier. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But the taxation of unimproved property happens at the same time to be a splendid weapon against the slum. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I am glad now I only employed the moral weapon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was this weapon which in the Civil War gave proof of the deadly efficacy of the breech-loading magazine gun, and its superiority to the old style military arm. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was a poor weapon, but perhaps the best that he could lay his hands on at the moment. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But in many cases victory depends not so much on general vigour, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- All the others stood to their weapons. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They buried their dead, often with ornaments, weapons, and food; they used a lot of colour in the burial, and evidently painted the body. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In a flash the operator switched on the current and the two men stood as if transfixed, hanging desperately to their weapons that were held aloft as by some giant’s hand. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Colonel plays a good knife and fork at tiffin and resumes those weapons with great success at dinner. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In recent great battleships four turrets are used, each carrying three of these great guns, giving a broadside of twelve of these monster weapons of war. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If I once placed myself publicly in the wrong, I put the weapons at once into Sir Percival's hands. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Since they try to frighten wild animals or their enemies by shrieks, beating of gongs, brandishing of weapons, etc. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Its path was marked by scattered weapons and war material, abandoned transport, and the dead and dying. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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