snipe

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英语专业八级

snipe 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 沙锥, 香烟屁股, 狙击, 街头流浪儿

vi. 猎鸟, 狙击, 诽谤

vt. 狙击

英文释义

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

n. a gunshot from a concealed location

v. hunt or shoot snipe

snipe 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 snipe 在自然语境里怎么用：

In one post, the tabloid sniped that more than thirty members of Congress were in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the break.

—— TMZ Gets Political

In 2009, Hawke starred alongside Wesley Snipes and Don Cheadle in a Fuqua film called “Brooklyn’s Finest,” a sprawling cop thriller.

—— The Action-Film Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson

The most upsetting thing for Petrarch was not so much these four friends’ condemnations, as the secretive and sniping way they went about them.

—— Learning to Live With Invidia: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

To bring it out in the open and, instead of sniping, try to “feel every wound,” to “rejoice in every triumph” of our rival.

—— Learning to Live With Invidia: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

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