| 单词 | slap |
| 释义 | slap I. 1. dialect Britain 2. dialect Britain < a slap in the fence > II. 1. a. < a slap on the cheek > b. < used by hunters to protect their arm from the slap of the bowstring — J.H.Howard > 2. < listening … to the slap and plunge of people in the water — Nadine Gordimer > < noise of construction — crashing slides of stone, whang of hammers, slap of plaster — Ruth Adams > specifically < a bad piston slap > 3. a. < words of praise like this are generally preliminary to a slap — Erle Stanley Gardner > — often used with at < a slap not only at this country but at all Asia — Robert Trumbull > b. < loyalty splintered under the slap of a moderate economic setback — Samuel Lubell > 4. < have a slap at the rabbits — F.E.Smedley > 5. • - slap in the face - slap on the wrist III. transitive verb 1. < slap a child's face > < he slaps his knee > < slap the table > 2. a. < a pinch hitter slapped the ball — Vic Wall > < clothes slapped warm and dry with wind and sun — Janet Frame > < a slapped bull fiddle > b. < slap your feet on the floor > < women washing clothes in the canal slap them … against stones — Christopher Rand > c. 3. < carved a … bun into three horizontal slices, slapped two beef patties between them — Time > < little hats slapped against the back of the head — Lois Long > — often used with on < slap paint on a wall > < slapping new taxes on farm cooperatives — G.E.Cruikshank > < slap a quota restriction on foreign imports of fur — New Republic > < slap an additional fine on the violator — J.M.Flagler > 4. < slap certain academic critics — Dudley Fitts > < slapped the workers who had gone on strike — Walter Sullivan > 5. < slap him with a summons > intransitive verb 1. < he slaped with the palm of his hand on the table > 2. < heelless slippers slapping on the stones — Claud Cockburn > < rain slapped at the stained-glass window — Berton Roueché > < the steady one, two, three, four beat of the slapping drums — New Yorker > Synonyms: see strike • - slap in the face - slap on the back - slap on the wrist - slap together IV. 1. < we hadn't sighted a thing … and then we ran slap into her — Hugh MacLennan > < houses are slap on the street; no sidewalk — not so much as a curb — Faubion Bowers > 2. dialect < she was slap out of black sewing cotton — Frances Gaither > |
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