| 单词 | nip |
| 释义 | nip I. transitive verb 1. a. < the dog nipped him on the leg > < nipped his grandson between his knees — Ethel Anderson > < a little gold ring … nipped to the top of an ear — Christopher Rand > b. c. obsolete 2. a. < choosing a slender cigar … he nipped it carefully and lit it — Ann Bridge > < nipped out pieces from the ends of the bar — L.A.Werden > < salient, in danger of being nipped off anytime — Earle Birney > specifically < in the spring the blooms are nipped, allowing the bulb to retain the full nourishment of the plant juices — American Guide Series: Louisiana > b. < his designs were … nipped in their infancy — T.L.Peacock > — often with in the bud < the political leaders would … nip the conspiracy in the bud — William Clark > : check sharply < government fiscal policy was used to nip a downswing — J.R.Chamberlain > c. < the Atlantic … nibbling away at the rocks, nipping off a bit here and swallowing a valley there — Alastair Borthwick > 3. < when her brother whom she despised grew sentimental … she nipped him — Rose Feld > 4. a. < the wind … nipped him to the bone — Rudyard Kipling > b. < see if this frost has not nipped my fruit trees — James Boswell > c. < these tidings nip me and I hang the head — Shakespeare > 5. < whoever nipped the whiskey, nipped the money, too — Mark Twain > 6. a. b. 7. < nipped him by 6 in. at the tape — Time > intransitive verb chiefly Britain < nip up there and fetch me down a book — James Ronald > as a. < nipping in and out of buses and taxis — Alan Moorehead > < nipping on a tram — Richard Llewellyn > b. (1) < nip back here with the key — Dodie Smith > (2) < we nipped off while they was milking — Audrey Barker > (3) < nipping in under his host's arm — Elizabeth Bowen > c. < shall I nip out and buy one — Alan Paton > d. < nipped in with a neat query — Punch > II. 1. a. < many a privy nip has he given him — Andrew Marvell > b. < the nip of the air had startled her — Willa Cather > especially < some tender slip saved with care from Winter's nip — John Milton > c. (1) Scotland < cheese with a nip > (2) < a scholar with a nip in his words — H.J.Laski > 2. a. < the … nips of the timid black widow spider — Donald Carlisle > b. c. (1) (2) < in calm weather the nip of a cable is usually freshened every 24 hours — Manual of Seamanship > d. e. (1) (2) (3) 3. < punishment of foists and nips caught in the act was prompt — Times Literary Supplement > 4. < wrapped a loaf of bread and a nip of cheese in the blanket — A.B.Mayse > 5. III. dialect chiefly England IV. < might take a little nip now and then — Hamilton Basso > < gin at threepence a nip — Fred Majdalany > V. < getting higher all the time by nipping at … bottles filled with martinis — Daniel Curley > VI. |
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