单词 | spot |
释义 | spot /spot; spat/ n 1 small (esp round) mark dif-ferent in colour from what it is on: 小点; (尤指) 圆形斑点: white dress material with red 浦红色 KILW 白色衣料。 Which has ~s, the leopard or the tiger? 豹与虎,哪一个有斑点? 2 dirty mark or stain: 汚点; 汚迹: ~s of mud on your boots. 你长靴上的滤汚。 3 small, red mark, blemish, on the skin; pimple: (皮肤上南) 红斑; 丘疹: This ointment won't clear your face of ~s. 这种油膏不会去除你脸上的红斑。 4 (fig) moral blemish: (喻) 道德上的汚点或瑕疵: There isn't a ~ on her reputation. 她的名誉上没有汚点。 5 drop: 滴; 点: Did you feel a few ~s of rain? 你有没有感觉到下了几滴雨? 6 particular place or area: 地点; 场所: the (very) ~ where he was murdered. 他被谋杀的 (确实) 地点, TV/radio ~, place in a TV/radio programme for an item or a commercial advertisement. 电视 (无线电广播) 节目中某一项目或广吿出现的位置。 → slot (3). 7 (phrases) (片语) a ~check, a quickly-made investigation, esp one made suddenly and without warning. 临时检査; 突击检査。 a tender ~, (fig) a subject on which a person's feelings are easily hurt. (喻) 易伤某人感情的话题; 痛处。 in ~, (colloq) in a difficult situation. (俗) 处困难境遇; 在困境中。 knock ~ off sb, easily surpass, do better than, him. 轻易超越或胜过某人。 on the ~, a at the place where one is needed: 在现场; 临现免: The police were on the ~ within a few minutes of hearing about the crime. 获悉该项犯罪后几分钟,警察即赶到现场。 b then and there; immediately: 当时当地; 即刻; 立即; 当场: He fell dead on the ~. 他当场就死了。 The bullet struck his head and he was killed on the ~. 子弹打中他的头部,他当时即被打死。 c (sl) in trouble. (俚) 在困难中。 Cf 参较 'on the carpet', the person on the ~, the man at the place in question (who, presumably, is acquainted with local conditions, happenings, etc and able to deal with them): 熟悉当地情况并能应付事情的人; 当地有办法的人; 当地有力人士: Let's leave the decision to the man/the men/the people on the 让我们留给当地有办法的人 (们) 去决定好了。 put sb on the ~, a place sb in danger or difficulty: 置某人于危境或困境: You've put me on the ~ here: I can't answer your question. 这你可把我难住了:我无法回答你的问题。 b (of gangsters) decide to kill (eg a rival gangster). (指歹徒) 决定杀死 (如敌对的歹徒) 。 put om s finger on/find sb's weak find the point (of character, etc) where he is most open to attack. 找出某人的弱点。 8 (comm) /'~ cash, payment on delivery of goods. (商) 交货付款; 现金。 ~ prices, prices quoted for such payment. 现金价格。 9 (08 colloq) small quantity of anything: (英俗) 小量; 少许: I need a ~ of brandy. 我需要一点白兰地。 What about doing a ~ of work? 做一点事怎么样? He's having a ~ of bother with his brother, a quarrel. 他同他的哥哥 (弟弟) 在吵架。 vt, vi (-tt-) 1 [VP6A, 2A] mark, become marked, with ~s: 加斑点于; 弄汚; 变得有斑点; 变汚: a table ~ted with ink; 被墨水弄汚的桌子; material that ~ easily, easily becomes ~ted. 易被弄汚的料子。 2 [VP6A] pick out, recognize, see (one person or thing out of many): (从很多人或物中) 察出; 认出; 看出; 看见 (某一个人或物): ~ a friend in a crowd; 在人群中认出一位朋友; ~ the winner in a race, pick out the winner before the start. 预先指出赛跑的获胜春 (看好某人) 。 3 [VP2A] (colloq) rain slightly: (俗) 下小雨: It's beginning to ~ /is ~ ting with rain. 天开始下起小雨来了。 ~ adv, adj marked with ~s. eg of such animals as the leopard and panther, and of birds with ~s of different colour on their plumage, of textile material with ~s. 有斑点的 (如指豹、美洲豹等动物,羽毛有不同颜色斑点的鸟,以及有斑点的布対等 ,~ted 'fever n form of meningitis; form of typhus. 斑疹热; 流行性脑脊髓膜炎; 斑疹禽寒。 ~less adj free from ~s; clean: 干净的; 淸洁的; 无汚点的; 无瑕疵的: a ~less kitchen/ reputation. 淸洁的厨房 (无瑕疵的名誉) 。 ~lessly adv. lessly clean. 极为淸洁的; 一尘不染的。 ~ty adj (-ier, -iest) 1 marked with ~s (esp on the skin) : (尤指皮肤上) 有斑点的: ~ complexion; 多雀斑的 M; windows that are ~y with fly marks. 有苍蝇汚痕的窗户。 2 of varying quality: 品质不一的; 不规则的: a ~ ty piece of work, done unevenly. 做得不均匀的工作 (有的地方做得好,有的地方做得坏) 。 ~ter n person who ~s (2), eg 'aircraft- ~ ter, person who, eg during a war, looks for and identifies different types of aircraft; 'train- ~ ter, (usu) schoolboy who looks for and notes different types of railway-engines. 观察员; 侦察员 (例如飞机侦察员,如在战时捜寻及辨认敌机机种的人员; 火车观察员,通常指注意火车机车之不同类型的学童) 。 |
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