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单词 trigger-happy
释义
trigger-happytrigger-ˌhappy (also ˈtrigger-ˌready) adjective informal Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • trigger-happy soldiers
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A debate even begins about whether the army is not getting a little trigger-happy in its nervous and no doubt terrified tension.
  • After all, half-an-hour away in any direction there is a trigger-happy racist waiting for his big day.
  • It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice.
  • The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
  • Whooper swans are molested by irresponsible trigger-happy parties but here, at Bolam, they visit in peace.
someone who is trigger-happy is much too willing to use weapons, especially guns:  a trigger-happy cop
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