Gammon
[gæmәn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
(v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
(n.) Backgammon.
(n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
(v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
(v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
(v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
校對:罗赞
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Imposition, CHEAT, hoax, humbug.
v. a. Deceive, cheat, humbug, hoax, chouse, trick, dupe, gull, cozen, overreach, outwit, bamboozle, circumvent, delude, diddle, beguile, mislead, inveigle, impose upon.
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解釋/意思:
n. (naut.) the lashing of the bowsprit.—v.t. to lash the bowsprit with ropes.
n. (mostly coll.) a hoax: nonsense humbug.—v.t. to hoax impose upon.—ns. Gamm′oner; Gamm′oning.
n. the preserved thigh of a hog.
贝琪校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Gammon, George! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- That may be your religion, but it's my gammon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That's gammon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Come, none o' this gammon,' growled Smouch, giving him another, and a harder one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I always thought, up to three days ago, that the names of Veller and gammon could never come into contract, Sammy, never. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The fool, answered Wamba, raising the relics of a gammon of bacon, will take care to erect a bulwark against the knave. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In 1879 Deering bought out Gammon, joined forces with Appleby, moved the factory from Plano to Chicago in 1880, and began putting out twine binders. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They're alvays a-doin' some gammon of that sort, Sammy,' replied his father. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A whole evening of back-gammon with her father, was felicity to it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
編輯:马丁