| 单词 | slick |
| 释义 | slick I. transitive verb 1. a. < a spatula is used to slick … the flour on a board — Correspondence Course in Flour Milling > < men … were slicking the skids with grease — James Dugan > b. < slicked up and sentimentalized the … rough-hewn original story — Time > < called in a decorator to slick it up, turning the … café into a restaurant de luxe — A.J.Liebling > c. 2. a. < hair slicked down and then brushed up in a barber's curl above his left eye — B.A.Williams > b. < dress as if they were slicked up for Saturday night in town — J.H.Jackson > < Mother was … a great one for keepin' things slicked up — J.C.Lincoln > intransitive verb 1. < he slicked up and courted her in the regular way — Helen Rich > 2. < the logs slicked along without jamming or stranding — Hugh Fosburgh > II. 1. a. < waters slick with oil — Time > < the grass was slick from the night's dew, and the men slipped frequently as they moved downhill — Norman Mailer > b. < an entertaining job of slick writing, all surface and no depth — B.R.Redman > < turned out slick and sound conventional likenesses in the best School of Fine Arts manner — Time > c. < the young gentlemen are altogether too pat, and the adventures which befall them altogether too slick — Virginia Woolf > < neatly plotted story of the slick variety, easily read, soon forgotten — Jerome Stone > < no slick solutions, no easy cures are peddled — R.J.McCracken > 2. archaic < fattens all their beasts of war, and makes them slick and fine — John Fryer > 3. a. < this slick type of youngster anticipates exactly how adults will react to him and plays on their sensibilities — Agnes Meyer > < a good many slick sales tricks — J.M.Guilfoyle > < approached this problem in … too unctuous and slick a mood — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 > especially < a pair of slick operators had given the district a bad name by salting a barren claim — Oscar Lewis > b. < a notable level of slick technical perfection in every department — Arthur Knight > < smooth ground attack and incredibly slick passing attack — New Yorker > 4. 5. 6. a. b. or slick-paper < slick fiction > < nationally circulated slick and quality magazines — Paul Roberts > < appeals to the slick-paper or carriage trade — Rosemary Benét > III. IV. 1. a. < snow left an icy slick on the roads > especially < band slicks on the sea surface … are commonly seen along the shore when the wind is a light breeze — G.C.Ewing > < searchers spotted an oil slick … and what might be the wreckage of a plane — New York Times > b. < an oily slick drifted away from our boat — Field & Stream > 2. a. b. 3. < all of them added to their herds by branding slicks — Bruce Siberts > — compare slick-ear 4. < slicks … exploited the plight of their brothers to ease their own paths — H.W.Baldwin > 5. chiefly Midland 6. < calculating editors of the slicks, who design moonshine to suit popular taste — Leo Marx > — compare pulp 5a V. or slick·er < explanations … only tended to confirm them in the notion that they were being slicked — R.W.Riis & Webb Waldron > VI. |
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