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词典释义:
snipe
时间: 2024-07-09 21:57:38
英 [snʌɪp]
美 [snaɪp]

n. 沙锥鸟;鹬

v. 狙击;打冷枪;诽谤

短语搭配
双语例句
  • The sniper sniped at the target.

    狙击手向目标狙击。

  • This snipe flew away.

    这只鹬飞走了。

  • He finally won the painting by sniping $1 million.

    他最终出价100万美元拿下了这幅画。

  • Gunmen continued to snipe at people leaving their homes to find food.

    枪手不断伏击外出找寻食物的人。

  • There was not much elbow room in the cockpit of a Snipe.

    “斯奈普”战斗机的驾驶舱内没有太多的活动空间。

  • I started some half - dozen snipe.

    我惊起了五六只山鹬。

  • Common snipe of Eurasia and Africa.

    欧亚大陆和非洲普通的沙锥鸟。

  • A flock of birds, especially snipe.

    鸟儿一群群地聚在河边。

近义词
同根词

词根 snipe

百科

现代意义上的狙击手“Sniper”这个单词的词根“snipe”则在1832年第一次出现,源自于英军在印度边区的一种猎鸟活动。据说snipe是一种身体娇小、动作十分灵活的小鸟,要猎获这种鸟并不容易,需要相当不错的射击和潜行的技术,这种运动也就被叫做snipe。等到一次世界大战时,sniper成了军事上狙击手的通称,强调的除了射击之外,还有掩藏自己踪迹的能力。同样的,德文中的“Heckenschutze”与法文的“tireurembusque”也都有埋伏射手的意思,而中文译成了“狙击手”,勉强算是不差。

释义
n.

a wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight

沙锥鸟,鹬。参见<Bold>PAINTED SNIPE, SEED-SNIPE</Bold>.

v.

shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range

(尤指远程准确地)狙击,打冷枪

  • the soldiers in the trench sniped at us.

    堑壕中的士兵向我们发动狙击。

make a sly or petty verbal attack

诽谤

  • the state governor constantly sniped at the president

    州长经常含沙射影地攻击总统

  • [as noun sniping]there has been some sniping about inept leadership.

    有些流言攻击领导层无能。

词源

"Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Icelandic mýrisnípa; obscurely related to Dutch snip and German Schnepfe."

  • Have you ever heard of a snipe? Snipe?

    你有没有听过"鹬鸟"?鹬鸟?

    《Up》《飞屋环游记》

  • 15 seconds. Come on, snipers. Ten, nine, eight. Where are your snipers? Five. Snipe. Four. Snipe. Three. snipe! Two. snipe! One.

    15秒。快点啊,淘宝人。10,9,8。你的淘宝人呢?5,淘啊。4,淘啊。3,淘啊。2,淘啊。1。

    《The Big Bang Theory Season 1》《生活大爆炸 第一季》

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