| 单词 | stunt |
| 释义 | stunt I. 1. chiefly dialect 2. chiefly dialect 3. chiefly dialect II. transitive verb < covered largely with stunted pine woods — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < heifers will be stunted and ruined, as they will calve at 18 months — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > < physical and mental development became stunted during … childhood — Dorothy Gardner > < superabundance of mechanical diversions stunted men's souls — Bruce Marshall > intransitive verb archaic < undernourished plants will stunt > III. 1. 2. 3. a. b. c. IV. Scotland V. 1. a. < a moored float with diving board and tower permits aquatic stunts — American Guide Series: Maine > < standing with one foot on the seat, sitting on the handlebars, and similar stunts — W.L.Gresham > < one of his stunts … was to fly between two trees where the opening was narrower than his wingspread — American Guide Series: California > b. < in a way this book is a stunt, for the portraits are actually medallion heads — New Yorker > < the kind of literary stunt one remembers much more respectfully from a youthful reading than from a mature rereading — John Mason Brown > < too trickily written … too discontinuous in its drama to be more than a serious stunt — Time > 2. < in a money-raising stunt for the sports fund, he was fined a penny for every inch of waistline — Keith Ellis > < won the trip in a radio program advertising stunt — W.H.Davenport > < looked upon filibustering as a political stunt — Lindsay Rogers > VI. intransitive verb 1. a. < stunted without nets or any safety devices — Saul Bellow > < lugged a unicycle up the trail and stunted on the summit — Andrew Hamilton & Chandler Harris > b. < its pilot was stunting and … took a nose dive — Jean Stafford > 2. < sentimentalists, political agitators … and stunting newspapers — A.A.Calwell > transitive verb VII. |
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