| 单词 | answer |
| 释义 | an·swer I. 1. a. < an honest answer to a fair question > < a soft answer turns away wrath — Prov 15:1 (Revised Standard Version) > < I called him but he gave no answer — Song of Sol 5:6 (Revised Standard Version) > < sent him five letters without receiving a single answer > b. < knew the answers to only 3 of the 10 questions > 2. a. < at my first answer no man stood with me — 2 Tim 4:16 (Authorized Version) > b. common law c. modern statutory law d. English law 3. < its publication … comes as the answer to an acute demand — Survey Graphic > < the Western answer to this move was the use of planes to supply food > < his only answer was to take his hat and walk out > also < received a slap by way of answer > < men from the neighboring villages gathered in answer to the warning > < in answer to your request we are sending a catalog > 4. a. < the answer to a chess problem > < the answer to a cryptogram > b. < the world situation is not one to which there is an easy answer — Dean Acheson > < the search for an answer to life > 5. of a fugue II. intransitive verb 1. a. < too nervous to answer effectively > < answered well in all his examinations except one > < refused to answer on grounds of possible self-incrimination > < should give the … organizations attacked by him a chance to answer through public hearings — S.H.Slichter > < think carefully before answering > b. 2. a. < stood ready to answer for the conduct of his children > < unless immediate reforms are made, we cannot answer for the consequences > < no one can answer for the future > b. < a crime for which he answered with his life > < someday you will answer for this > 3. < as in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man — Prov 27:19 (Revised Standard Version) > < a result that did not answer to expectations > < the boundless ocean of prairie vanishing into the far horizon, and above it the answering disk of sky — Meridel Le Sueur > < answered perfectly to the description we had been given of it > 4. 5. < we rang several times but no one ed > < if you make the sign of the Man then she will answer with the sign of the Fox — Lafcadio Hearn > < underground treasures … seldom answer clearly when they are queried by the geologist's instruments — Time > < a flashing light answered on the leading destroyer — Wirt Williams > 6. < in teaching the young to think hard, any subject will answer — C.W.Eliot > — often used with for < a sofa that was quite often made to answer for a bed > 7. < the second voice answers in the dominant > transitive verb 1. < answer me when I speak to you > < you have not answered my question > < wrote him several letters which he did not answer > < a job which he secured by answering an advertisement > also < answered that they would be happy to come > < answered the first thing that came into his head > 2. < an argument that is not easily answered > < the only faith that can immediately and finally answer communism — Stephen Spender > 3. < was held in bail to answer a charge of petty larceny > 4. a. < answering blow with blow > < answered the enemy's fire shell for shell > b. < if thy appearance answer loud report — John Milton > < a man exactly answering the description broadcast by the police > < all work must answer the specifications laid down > c. < the subtle antiphonal effects that come from curve answering curve, angle echoing angle — Hunter Mead > < parts that answer each other on a blueprint > 5. < studies day and night to answer all the debt he owes unto you — Shakespeare > : be sufficient for : serve < a first-aid kit designed to answer all common emergencies > < if peace did not serve his purposes, war might answer them — Francis Hackett > 6. < our prayers were answered > 7. obsolete < a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it — Shakespeare > 8. < a word of protest would be answered by a blow from a scimitar — C.S.Forester > < a call for 1000 bottles of blood was answered promptly — Irene Kuhn > < the ship was listing heavily and wouldn't answer her rudder > < three fire companies answered the alarm > < the phone is ringing but nobody answers it > 9. < can you answer this riddle > < tried not only to answer problems but to anticipate them > Synonyms: < to answer a question > < to answer the telephone > It may suggest full or ample return < he could assert, produce arguments, opinions, and information but he couldn't meet or answer arguments — Rose Macaulay > respond may suggest a ready, willing, or immediate answering; it is used in connection with various stimuli, answer being more limited < responding to that appeal, many men and women went forth into the foreign field — Elmer Davis > < they were all quick to learn and respond to ethical values — Frances G. Patton > < responding to the threat of death with behavior that is a degradation of the human spirit — Time > reply may focus attention on the act of answering in the same way, covering the same ground, giving an appropriate return < to reply to a charge > < to reply to a salute > < “if anything starts, we are lost, sir”, observed the first lieutenant again. “I'm perfectly aware of it”, replied the captain, in a calm tone — Frederick Marryat > < three deep throaty blasts announce the approaching ship, to which the bridge replies with a like number of shrill signals — American Guide Series: Minnesota > rejoin means merely making an answer but may apply to a sharp or pointed reply to an ill-taken comment < “he can't sleep comfortably on that ship”, she said. “In his present state”, rejoined Andrew, “he might not sleep comfortably anywhere” — L.C.Douglas > retort applies to a retaliatory countering answer to some criticism, charge, rebuke, or argument < the plundering soldier in Georgia who retorted to Sherman's sermon with “you can't expect all the cardinal virtues for thirteen dollars a month” — D.W.Brogan > < “you wouldn't let me send you a book or two just as a friendly memento?” she cried, incredulous. “I don't take anything from anybody”, he retorted — S.H.Adams > Synonym: see in addition satisfy. • - answer back - answer to the name of III. < picture books—the book business's answer to the movies — Edward Hoagland > |
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