单词 | snatch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | snatch1 verbsnatch2 noun snatchsnatch1 /snætʃ/ ●○○ verb [transitive] ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINsnatch1 Verb TableOrigin: 1100-1200 Perhaps from Middle Dutch snacken; ➔ SNACK2VERB TABLE snatch
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto sleep for a short time► have a nap Collocations especially British /take a nap especially American to sleep for a short time during the day: · I was having a nap by the fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell· Try to take a nap in the afternoons if you're feeling tired.· The director always takes a nap around this time. ► doze to sleep lightly for a short time, so that you wake up and go back to sleep again, often while you are sitting in a chair or when you do not intend to: · He left his mother dozing by the fire.· Geoff lay dozing gently in a sunlounger.doze fitfully (=to sleep for very short periods): · Some people managed to sleep, but most of us just dozed fitfully. ► snooze /have/take a snooze to sleep for a short time, especially during the day when you do not usually sleep: · The baby was snoozing peacefully in her stroller, so we stopped to have a drink.· The study showed that if pilots on long-haul flights take a brief snooze in the cockpit, they're more alert for the landing. ► grab/snatch some sleep informal to sleep for a short time when you have a chance to, because you are very busy and cannot sleep at your usual time: · I'll go home, snatch a couple of hours' sleep and meet you at four.· I grabbed a little sleep on the train, but it wasn't enough. ► have a sleep British to sleep for a short time during the day because you are tired: · Are you tired? Why don't you have a sleep this afternoon? to steal from someone in the street► rob to steal money or possessions from someone, especially using threats or violence and in a public place such as a street: · Two men tried to rob him as he left the restaurant.· The woman had been robbed and was badly shaken. ► mug to violently attack someone in the street and rob them: · She decided to move from the city after she was mugged for the third time in less than a year. ► snatch to steal someone's bag from them in the street and then run away: · A young boy pushed her over and snatched her purse as she fell. to take something from someone► take to take something out of someone's hands: · Let me take your bags -- you look exhausted.· Oh, mom, could you just take this for a second?· He took her coat, and hung it in the hall.take something from somebody: · He walked slowly across the room and took the gun from her.take something off somebody informal: · Can you take some of these books off me? ► grab/snatch to take something from someone with a sudden violent movement: · He just grabbed my camera and ran off with it.snatch/grab something from somebody/something: · Gerry snatched her diary from the desk, and she lunged to grab it back.snatch/grab something off somebody informal: · Paul grabbed the bag of sweets off his sister and ran away with it. ► take away to take something important from someone, such as a possession or a right, either as a punishment or in a way that is wrong or unfair: take away something: · Mom's threatened to take away my stereo if my schoolwork doesn't improve.· The new law would take away the rights of workers to go on strike.· That's stupid -- it's like teaching someone to read, then taking away all their books!take something away: · No, Eli, I'm taking it away now!take something away from somebody: · Even though Polly still needs it, the authorities have taken the wheelchair away from her. ► seize to take something such as drugs, guns, or documents from someone who is keeping them illegally or taking them from one place to another: · Police seized 53 weapons and made 42 arrests.· Over 52,000 E-tablets hidden in a car door were seized by customs officials.· Assets worth over $1 million were seized, along with documents relating to the company's financial dealings. ► impound to take something such as a car or an animal away from someone and keep it in a special place until they are officially allowed to have it back: · The act will give the government new rights to impound untaxed cars and crush them. · The medical officer says that the animals will be impounded while tests are carried out.· Police recovered both items, and impounded a black BMW from the murder scene. ► confiscate to officially take something away from someone, either as a punishment or because they are not allowed to have it: · Your vehicle can be confiscated if you are transporting marijuana.· The authorities will confiscate firearms found on a boat or plane if the owner cannot show proof of US licensing. confiscate something from somebody: · The group claims that billions of dollars in property and bank accounts was confiscated from Jewish businessmen in the Second World War. ► commandeer if the army or other military organization commandeers something such as a vehicle or a building, they take it away from the owners in order to use it in a war: · Bud's truck had been commandeered by the regiment.· The officers had commandeered every house in the area.· A paramilitary group attempted to commandeer the bus and take it to Madrid. ► deprive somebody to take away or not let someone have their rights, advantages etc, especially in a way that seems unfair: · Under Stalin, Soviet citizens were deprived of their most basic human rights.· The boy's parents claim the school's actions have effectively deprived their son of education.· Banning the carnival will deprive law-abiding citizens of a source of culturally valuable entertainment. ► strip somebody to completely take away someone's rights, responsibilities, or a prize they have won, especially as a punishment for doing something wrong: · The captain was stripped of his licence after the collision.· He was formally stripped of his American citizenship.· The ruling authority stripped him of his boxing title after he was convicted of importing heroin.· The court ruled that Learer's conviction did not constitute grounds for stripping her of custody of her four children. to take something from somewhere quickly and suddenly► grab to quickly and suddenly take something from the place where it is, especially because you are in a hurry: · Grab your coat, we're late.· I'm going to run downstairs and grab some books and stuff - I'll be right back.· It was chaos, everyone was just grabbing drinks from behind the bar. ► snatch to take something quickly and violently from the place where it is: · When no one was looking, he snatched a tray of watches and ran out of the shop.· Someone's going to snatch your purse if you leave it sticking out of your bag like that.· Before I could say a word, he'd snatched the keys from the table and run out of the room. ► whisk something away to very quickly and suddenly take something from the place where it is, especially to prevent someone from seeing or touching it: whisk away something: · The waiter whisked away my plate before I'd finished.whisk away: · As soon as the baby was born he was whisked away and put in an incubator. to put out your hand to take something► reach for · I reached for the salt, and knocked over a bottle of wine.· There was a noise outside, and Bill reached for his flashlight. ► grab/snatch at to suddenly put out your hand in order to take something: · I grabbed at the boy's collar as he ran past.· I snatched at the reins and managed to haul him to a halt. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► snatches of conversation 1to take something away from someone with a quick, often violent, movement SYN grab: ![]() · It is no good wailing when some one unfamiliar, such as Joel Jutge, snatches away the comfort blanket. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() snatch1 verbsnatch2 noun snatchsnatch2 noun [countable] ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► snatches of conversation Phrases![]() PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► a snatch of conversation/music/song etc► in snatches 1a snatch of conversation/music/song etc a short part of a conversation, song etc that you hear:
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