单词 | revolver-like |
释义 | > as lemmasreˈvolver-like reˈvolver-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ 1886 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Brandes Eminent Authors 19th Cent. 185 His mind was loaded, revolver-like, with fancies, and they followed one another in swift succession, shot after shot, all aimed at the same point. 1891 H. Nisbet Colonial Tramp I. xxi. 209 Those revolver-like reports of the whip. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xix. 228 His voice..as opposed to Mason's revolver-like ‘Excused!’ 2009 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 26 Sept. i.10 The laser thermometer is [a] revolver-like apparatus [that] shoots a laser and gives you a digital read-out of the temperature of whatever surface the laser hits. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。