| 单词 | it's called |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit's called —— c. transitive. colloquial (usually humorous). it's called ——: (as an ironic rejoinder, designed to bring into salutary focus some simple or obvious point that has gone unrecognized) ‘what we're really talking about is ——’, ‘think of it as ——’, ‘you must realize, it's ——’. ΚΠ 1965 A. R. Ammons Tape for Turn of Year 109 Don't get in any trouble..Work your way up through a corporation... Sheez! It's called ‘coming to one's senses’. 1975 P. Larkin Let. 9 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 519 You remember my saying to my loaf-haired sec. years ago, when homoism became legal, that I hoped they'd get around now to making heteroism legal—‘But they have,’ she said, ‘haven't you heard? It's called marriage.’ 1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life ix. 148 And Dean's like, whoa! Alison, cool out, it's called kidding. 1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts xii. 186 It's ok to not give yourself a hard time every so often. It's called relaxing, Cassie. 2001 Heat 27 Oct. 120/1 It's called being generous. What's more, you don't have to be cashed-up. < as lemmas |
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