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单词 point-blank
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point-blank

adjective
/ˌpɔɪnt ˈblæŋk/
/ˌpɔɪnt ˈblæŋk/
[only before noun]
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  1. (of a shot) fired with the gun touching or very close to the person or thing it is aimed at
    • The officer was shot dead at point-blank range.
  2. (of something that is said) very definite and direct and not very polite synonym blunt
    • a point-blank refusal
  3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably from point + blank in the contemporaneous sense ‘white spot in the centre of a target’.

point-blank

adverb
/ˌpɔɪnt ˈblæŋk/
/ˌpɔɪnt ˈblæŋk/
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  1. with the gun touching or very close to the person or thing it is aimed at
    • She fired point-blank at his chest.
  2. in a very definite and direct way that is not very polite synonym bluntly
    • He refused point-blank to be photographed.
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