a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target
鱼雷。
〈美〉 (铁路)信号雷管。
〈美〉 掼炮(一种掷地而爆的爆竹)。
(亦作
电鳐。
attack or sink (a ship) with a torpedo or torpedoes
用鱼雷攻击(或炸沉)(船只)。
〈喻〉 摧毁,毁掉(计划,工程)
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fighting between the militias torpedoed peace talks .民兵之间的战斗破坏了和平谈判。
"early 16th cent. (in sense 2): from Latin, literally ‘stiffness, numbness', by extension ‘electric ray' (which gives a shock causing numbness), from