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单词 slap
释义
slap1 verbslap2 noun
slapslap1 /slæp/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle slapped, present participle slapping) Verb Table
VERB TABLE
slap
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyslap
he, she, itslaps
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyslapped
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave slapped
he, she, ithas slapped
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad slapped
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill slap
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have slapped
Continuous Form
PresentIam slapping
he, she, itis slapping
you, we, theyare slapping
PastI, he, she, itwas slapping
you, we, theywere slapping
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been slapping
he, she, ithas been slapping
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been slapping
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be slapping
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been slapping
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Dora slapped his face and ran home.
  • I was so angry I wanted to slap him.
  • Mrs. Williams slapped the children's hands away from the candy.
  • She slapped him across the face and stormed out of the room.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A hand raised to slap would send her into hysterical giggles; she knew it would never be delivered.
  • He slapped my back and said, Maybe so.
  • I think she had a feeling I might suddenly leap up and start slapping her around.
  • She slapped a bubble-syringe into the hair at the base of the girl's neck where the mark wouldn't show.
  • She slapped me when I tried to wipe it up, but I swear she winked at me.
  • She lay on her bed and after a while heard Betty come in again, slapping at her cheeks and arms.
  • That hurt him almost as much as when I slapped his face for not letting me escape.
  • The steam, the heat, rose up and slapped her in the face.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSto hit someone
to hit someone quickly and hard with your hand, a stick etc: · He hit him hard in the stomach.· I don’t like to see people hitting a dog.
to hit someone deliberately many times, especially very hard: · The girl had been beaten to death.· He was beating the donkey with a stick.
written to hit someone with your hand or a weapon. Strike is more formal than hit and is mainly used in written English: · Her husband struck her twice across the face.· Police say that the man had been struck on the head.
to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight: · I punched him on the nose.· She was screaming and punching him with her fists.
informal to punch someone very hard: · Sometimes I just want to thump him.
to hurt someone badly in a violent attack, by hitting them many times: · If I tell the police, they'll beat me up.· He had been beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes.
to hit someone with your open hand, especially because you are angry with them: · They had a big row and she ended up slapping him.
(also smack especially British English) to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish them: · Should a parent ever smack a child?· I don’t agree with smacking.· In those days, children were spanked if they behaved badly.
Longman Language Activatorto hit someone deliberately
to hit someone with your hand or with something that you are holding in your hand: · Dad! Peter keeps hitting me!hit with: · The victim had been hit with a baseball bat.hit somebody on the nose/in the stomach/over the head etc: · There was a fight, and someone had hit him over the head with a chair.hit somebody hard (=with a lot of force): · He hit him hard in the stomach.hit somebody back (=to hit someone when they have hit you): · Don't hit him, he'll only hit you back.
also slug informal to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight or because you are angry: · The woman claimed that she had been punched and kicked by one of the policemen.· The actor slugged a photographer who got too close.punch somebody on the nose/in the eye/in the chest etc: · Dean punched her in the ribs and pushed her against the wall.
to hit someone, especially on their face, with the flat part of your open hand: · I was so angry I wanted to slap him.slap somebody across the face: · She slapped him across the face and stormed out of the room.slap somebody's face: · Dora slapped his face and ran home.
formal to hit someone, especially on a particular part of their body: · Her husband had never struck her before.strike with: · Evidence shows that the victim had been struck several times with an iron bar.strike somebody on the head/in the stomach etc: · The court heard that the defendant had struck Payne repeatedly in the face, causing serious bruising.
to hit or try to hit someone very hard with a closed hand in a fight: · Rogers threw a punch at Martin.· Foreman, once the World Heavyweight Champion, says 'I never throw a punch in anger.'
informal to hit someone hard, with your hand or with an object: · If he said anything like that to me, I'd whack him!
informal to hit someone very hard with your closed hand, especially on their body rather than on their face or head: · Mike thumped Stephanie's back several times to stop her choking.
spoken to hit someone hard, especially in a fight: bash somebody's head/face/teeth etc in: · I told him I'd bash his head in if he ever touched her again.
spoken to hit someone very hard, either with your hand or with a hard object: · The kids are bored, and have nothing to do but clobber each other.
to hit someone in a friendly way etc
to hit someone on the back with the flat part of your hand, for example as a friendly greeting or in order to praise them: · "How are you? I haven't seen you for ages," she said, slapping Jim on the back.· The coach said "Well done!'' and clapped each player on the back as they entered the changing room.
to gently hit someone, usually on their back, shoulder, or head, in order to praise them or show them that you like them: · Roz reached over and patted her hand.· He got up, patted her on the shoulder, and gave her a quick kiss.
to hit someone as a punishment
to repeatedly hit someone with your hand, with a stick etc as a punishment: · The guards used to regularly beat the prisoners.· Teachers are no longer allowed to beat students who misbehave.beat with: · Slaves were sometimes beaten with sticks or even whipped.
to hit someone repeatedly, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand, on their bottom: · The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.· Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline.
also swat American to hit someone, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand on their hand, the backs of their legs, their face etc: · If you don't stop that, I'll smack you!· Slap her hand lightly when she touches something she shouldn't.· He grinned and I wanted to swat him, but he wasn't my son so I didn't.
to hit someone violently and repeatedly with something such as a stick, in order to punish them: · The guards gave the prisoner a beating.give somebody a good/sound beating: · His father took him into the barn and gave him a good beating.
to hit someone very hard with a rope, whip etc especially on their back in order to punish them: · The hostage had terrible scars on his back where he had been whipped.· What kind of a society flogs women simply for saying what they think?
the practice of punishing people, especially children at school, by hitting them with something such as a stick: · In my first year at Hendon School, I had my first taste of corporal punishment.· Corporal punishment is, thankfully, no longer used.
to put paint, glue, make-up etc onto a surface
to put something such a paint or glue onto a surface, or make-up (=powders and colours that women put on their faces) onto your face: put something on: · The paint had been put on too thickly, and it had dripped.put on something: · When you put the glue on, be careful not to get any on your fingers.· Patricia went upstairs to put on some lipstick.
to put something such as paint or glue onto a surface, or make-up (=powders and colours that women put on their faces) onto your face - used especially in written instructions on how to use it: · Apply the cream in the morning and the evening.· Make sure the surface is completely dry before applying the final coat of paint.
informal to put something such as paint or glue onto a surface, or make-up (=powders and colours that women put on their faces) onto your face quickly and without much care, and usually in large amounts: slap something on: · Mike was slapping jam on a slice of bread.slap on something: · Slap on a coat of paint and it will look good as new.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
British English informal (=with a lot of good food)· Mum always makes a slap-up dinner for me when I go home.
British English informal (=a good meal)· Jennie cooked us a slap-up meal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· Like a great black stone slapped down upon the great wei chi board of Chung Kuo.· When the wind is adverse, the flat-bottomed scow bucks straight across the waves, catching air and slapping down hard.· They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest.· The wind seemed to lift up the boathouse roof, holding it briefly, then letting it slap down hard.· Your leading hand slaps down on the punch as you simultaneously punch over the top and into the opponent's face.· Those state pols who think they deserve more money than most of the voters they represent deserve to be slapped down.· The spent kick slaps down near your leading foot and you hook it away with the crook of your ankle.· You never smile, you slap down all attempts at help or friendliness.
NOUN
· She slapped him on the back.· He slapped my back and said, Maybe so.· Forbes slapped me on the back.· He slapped my back, slapped my butt, then kneaded my flesh.· She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back, but she was too late.· Jack said, and he slapped Streeter on the back of the head with his gun hand.· His father managed to clear the obstruction by slapping Christopher on his back 7 times.· He rushed over and slapped me on the back as I lifted a highball to my lips.
· She lay on her bed and after a while heard Betty come in again, slapping at her cheeks and arms.· As hard as he could he slapped himself across his cheek with an open hand.· If some one slaps your left cheek then you slap his right, only harder.
· It seemed like just another insult, but this was the one that finally got the bully's face slapped.
· Suddenly her hand lashed out and slapped his face.· A hand raised to slap would send her into hysterical giggles; she knew it would never be delivered.· She bunched up the guilty hand that had slapped Becky and put it under her pillow.· As Jess passes by Jody, the coach extends her hand to be slapped.· These use the cupped palm of the hand to slap an incoming punch either down or to one side.· Stephen felt the palm of his hand itch to slap her face.· Your leading hand slaps down on the punch as you simultaneously punch over the top and into the opponent's face.
· He slaps his knee and sits up.
· MacLane slapped his open palm lightly with a leaded length of rubber hosepipe.· After the customary slapping of palms and the praising of the salesman over the firm loudspeaker, Stone informed Ranieri.· The captain slapped her palm on the desk with a sound like a breaking plate.
· I slapped gently at the sides of her face, without much success, while Miss Hinkle produced a glass of water.· He slapped her on the side of the head and she took half a swing at him.· Incoming swells curled around the island and slapped them from both sides at once, sometimes washing all the way over them.
· A cash offer of 605p for each Pearl share has been slapped on the table with a loan note alternative.· When the dealer busted, she yelped and slapped the table.· Harrick furiously slapped the press table and raged at referee Mark Reischling.
· Long gourds are the preferred form for slapping against the thighs.· He did not kno., v that he had made a joke until he saw Mel slapping his thigh and laughing.· I had to slap my thigh and cavort around.· He slapped his enormous thighs and laughed some more.
· Some one, somewhere, must speak for golf - and maybe slap a few wrists.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Forbes slapped me on the back.
  • He rushed over and slapped me on the back as I lifted a highball to my lips.
  • I go to slap her on the back but she waves my arm away impatiently.
  • In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back.
  • Jack said, and he slapped Streeter on the back of the head with his gun hand.
  • She slapped him on the back.
  • She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back, but she was too late.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • I shall award a slap-up dinner at Jamash, our local Balti restaurant, to the winner.
1[transitive] to hit someone with the flat part of your handpunch:  Sarah slapped Aaron across the face. see thesaurus at hit2[transitive always + adverb/preposition] to put something down on a surface with force, especially when you are angry:  Giles slapped his cards down on the table.3slap somebody on the back to hit someone on the back in a friendly way, often as a way of praising them4[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to hit a surface with a lot of force, making a loud sharp soundslap against Small waves slapped against the side of the boat.slap somebody down phrasal verb British English to rudely tell someone that their suggestions, questions, ideas etc are stupidslap something ↔ on phrasal verb informal1to put or spread something quickly or carelessly onto a surface:  She ran upstairs and slapped on some make-up.slap something on something We could slap some paint on it.2to suddenly announce a new charge, tax etc or say that something is not allowed – used especially when you think this is unfair:  Many tour operators slap on supplements for single people.slap something on something In 1977, the president slapped a ban on the commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel.
slap1 verbslap2 noun
slapslap2 noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINslap2
Origin:
1600-1700 Low German slapp, from the sound
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • If you don't behave yourself, you'll get a slap!
  • Sheila woke Ted up with a slap across the face.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A slap on the neck brought him rudely out of his trance.
  • It could have been a slap.
  • The harsh question was like another slap in the face.
  • The sounds of thuds, screams and slaps come from below.
  • There was a starchy department head exchanging low fives and complicated hand slaps with a kid who barely reached his knee.
  • They struggled until slaps and blows stopped them.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto not be punished severely enough
to only receive a small punishment, especially when you deserve a much more severe one: · If you're lucky you'll get off with a warning, if you're not you'll have to pay a fine.· It's appalling that rapists can get off with such short prison sentences.get off lightly (=only receive a small punishment): · Phil kept complaining that the $500 fine was unfair, but I think he got off lightly.
informal a much smaller punishment that you deserve: · The fine was so low, it was little more than a slap on the wrist.· In the past, officers who mistreated prisoners often received a mere slap on the wrist.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Julia gave Roy a slap on the cheek.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
British English informal (=with a lot of good food)· Mum always makes a slap-up dinner for me when I go home.
British English informal (=a good meal)· Jennie cooked us a slap-up meal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· I've seen her chop heads and she's given me a few slaps in the past.· The fat lady gave his shoulder a slap and he was off, moving tipsily in the direction of Hard.· A girl in an apple-green school tunic advanced on me, her hand raised as if to give me a slap.· They just gave him a slap on the wrist then and that enabled him to go out and kill my husband.· The man said something and they all laughed, the woman giving him a mock slap on the arm.· He was not averse to giving slaps and pushes when he considered them necessary.· It's high time he was given a verbal slap.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Gwynn considered the salary they were offering a slap in the face.
  • And make no mistake: He considers the Padres' offer a slap in the face -- even mimicking such a blow.
  • Barnes's decision therefore came as somewhat of a slap in the face to these well rehearsed points.
  • But choosing that particular moment to do it was a rebuff as callous and shocking as a slap in the face.
  • It is a slap in the face and an insult.
  • In the past, officers who mistreated prisoners often received a mere slap on the wrist.
  • The fine was so low, it was little more than a slap on the wrist.
  • So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms.
  • They just gave him a slap on the wrist then and that enabled him to go out and kill my husband.
  • a congratulatory slap on the back
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • I shall award a slap-up dinner at Jamash, our local Balti restaurant, to the winner.
1[countable] a quick hit with the flat part of your handpunch:  Julia gave Roy a slap on the cheek.2a slap in the face an action that seems to be deliberately intended to offend or upset someone, especially someone who has tried very hard to do something3a slap on the wrist a punishment that you think is not severe enough4a slap on the back an action of hitting someone on the back in a friendly way, especially as a way of praising them5[uncountable] informal make-up
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