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单词 sticky wicket
释义

stick2 /stik/

transitive verb (pat stuck, Scot stack; pap stuck, Scot stickˈit)
  1. To pierce, transfix
  2. To stab
  3. To spear
  4. To thrust
  5. To fasten by piercing
  6. To insert
  7. To set in position
  8. To set or cover with things fastened on
  9. To cause to adhere, fix with an adhesive
  10. To endure (esp with it) (informal)
  11. To function successfully (informal)
  12. To bring to a standstill or nonplus
  13. To leave someone (with) (something unpleasant) (informal)
  14. (usu passive) to confine
  15. (esp in imperative) used to dismiss something with disgust, scorn, etc (vulgar sl)
intransitive verb
  1. To be fixed by insertion
  2. To jut, protrude
  3. To adhere
  4. (of a charge or accusation) to be accepted as valid
  5. To become or remain fixed
  6. To remain
  7. To be detained by an impediment
  8. To jam
  9. To fail to proceed or advance
  10. To scruple
  11. To hold fast, keep resolutely (with to)
noun
  1. Adhesiveness
  2. A hitch
  3. A stoppage (obsolete)
  4. A difficulty (archaic)
ORIGIN: OE stician; cf stick1, stitch

stickabilˈity noun (informal; facetious)

The ability to stick at something, persistence, perseverance

stickˈer noun

  1. A gummed label or poster
  2. A person who kills pigs, etc
  3. A person who or thing that sticks
  4. A piercing weapon (informal)
  5. A person or thing difficult to get rid of
  6. Someone who is constant or persistent
  7. A poser
  8. A piano jack
  9. An upright rod that transmits motion from an organ key
transitive verb

To apply stickers (gummed labels) to

stickˈily adverb

stickˈiness noun

stickˈing noun and adjective

stickˈy adjective

  1. Adhesive
  2. Tenacious
  3. Gluey
  4. Muggy
  5. Difficult (informal)
  6. Unpleasant (informal)
  7. (of a website) tending to attract visitors and retain their attention (informal)
transitive verb

To make sticky

noun (pl stickˈies)

An adhesive label or note

stickˈing-plaster noun

An adhesive plaster for covering wounds

stickˈing-point or stickˈing-place noun

The point beyond which a thing cannot proceed

stickˈ-in-the-mud noun

An old fogey (also adjective)

stickit minister noun (Scot)

A licentiate who never gets a pastoral charge

stickˈjaw noun

A stodgy pudding or sweetmeat

stick pin noun (US)

A tie-pin

stickˈseed noun

A plant of the borage family with barbed seeds

stickˈ-up noun

  1. A hold-up
  2. A stand-up collar

stickˈweed noun

Any plant with clinging seeds, esp ragweed

stickˈybeak noun (Aust and NZ informal)

A Nosey Parker

intransitive verb

To pry

sticky end noun

An unpleasant end, disaster

sticky ends plural noun

Single-stranded ends of DNA that has been cut with a restriction endonuclease, able to pair with complementary ends on, and thus joining, other fragments

stickˈy-fingˈered adjective (informal)

Prone to pilfering

sticky wicket noun

A difficult situation to cope with

sticky willie noun (Scot)

Cleavers (qv under cleave2)

stuck-upˈ adjective

Self-importantly aloof

get stuck in (or into) (informal)

To deal with, consume, attack in a vigorous, aggressive, eager, etc manner

stick around (informal)

To remain or linger

stick at

  1. To hesitate or scruple at (often with nothing)
  2. To persist at

stick by

To be firm in supporting, adhere closely to

stick 'em up!

Hold up your hands (or be shot)!

stick in (Scot)

  1. To persevere assiduously
  2. Also (of a dressing, etc) to adhere to a wound

stick in one's throat or craw

To be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to countenance

stick it to

  1. To overcharge systematically
  2. To gain a victory over (someone)

stick one's neck out see under neck

stick or snee see snickersnee

stick out

  1. To project
  2. To be obvious
  3. To continue to resist

stick out for

To insist upon

stick to

To persevere in holding to

stick together

  1. To be allies
  2. To support each other

stick to one's guns see under gun

stick up

  1. To stand up
  2. To rob at gunpoint, waylay and plunder (esp US; stickˈ-up noun)

stick up for

To speak or act in defence of

stick with

  1. To remain with
  2. To force (a person) to cope with (something unpleasant), often in the phrase be stuck with

stuck for

Unable to proceed because of the lack of

stuck on (informal)

Enamoured of

wicket /wikˈit/

noun
  1. A small gate
  2. A small door in or near a larger one
  3. A grill or loophole (obsolete)
  4. An opening or a window with a grille, eg at a ticket office, bank, etc (US)
  5. (the following meanings all cricket) the upright arrangement of three stumps with two bails on top which the batsman defends against the bowling
  6. A stump
  7. The pitch, esp in respect of its condition
  8. A batsman's stay at the wicket, or his joint stay there with another
  9. A batsman's innings
ORIGIN: ONFr wiket (Fr guichet); of Gmc origin

wickˈetless adjective (cricket)

(of a bowler) not having dismissed a batsman

wicket door or wicket gate noun

A wicket

wickˈetkeeper noun (cricket)

The fieldsman who stands immediately behind the batsman's wicket and whose object is to stop balls missed by the batsman

get, take, etc a wicket

To bowl a batsman or have him dismissed in any way as a result of one's bowling

keep wicket

To be the wicketkeeper

over (or round) the wicket

(of bowling) delivered with the arm nearer (or farther away from) the wicket

sticky wicket see under stick2

throw down the wicket

(of a fielder) to break the wicket with a throw of the ball

win by so many wickets

To win with so many wickets still to fall
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