[ 复数 swords ]
N-COUNT A sword is a weapon with a handle and a long sharp blade. 剑
PHRASE If you cross swords with someone, you disagree with them and argue with them about something. 争论
...a candidate who's crossed swords with labour by supporting the free-trade pact.
…一位因支持自由贸易协定而与工党争论的候选人。
PHRASE If you say that something is a double-edged sword, you mean that it has negative effects as well as positive effects. 双刃剑
A person's looks are a double-edged sword. Sometimes it works in your favour, sometimes it works against you.
一个人的相貌是一把双刃剑。有时它对你有利,有时又对你不利。
Earlier words of the year have included bovvered, credit crunch and footprint, which was also runner-up in 2007's Word of the Century So Far.
往年曾当选的词汇包括bovvered(纠结),credit crunch(信贷危机)和footprint(碳足迹)。 其中footprint在2007年评选的世纪词汇中排行第二,9/11在英美两国均排行第一。
Fail—"a noun or interjection used when something is egregiously unsuccessful"—was 2009's the most useful word.
失败——“名词或感叹词,当某事非常不成功时使用”——被评为2009年最有用的单词。
Today's word,pan, takes us back to the days of the gold rush in California.
VOA: special.2010.04.25
Wow" is Dean's word. "Wow" is the kind of word that means nothing, but it suggests the immediacy of Dean's engagement.
哇是迪恩的话,哇这个词可以是没有意义的,但它表示了迪恩的直接参与。
It would have been a perfect symmetry because last time we quoted Paul Ricoeur to the effect that these authors, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, were--and this is Ricoeur's word--"masters."
这里其实是很平衡的,因为上次我们提到保罗,里克尔的时候大意是说这些作者,包括马克思,尼采和弗洛伊德,按里克尔的说法,都是大师“
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