gimlet

英 ['gɪmlɪt] 美 ['ɡɪmlət]

解释

※ 提供单词"gimlet"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

gimlet 手钻

词源不详。可能来自拟声词，gim, 沙沙作响，-let, 小词后缀。

gimlet (n.): type of boring tool, mid-14c., gymbelette, from Anglo-French and Old French guimbelet, guibelet (12c., Modern French gibelet), which is probably of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn (with substitute of French diminutive suffix), diminutive of wimmel "auger, drill." Middle English also had wimble in the same sense (mid-13c.), probably from an Old North French form of the same word. As the name of a cocktail made with gin or vodka and lime juice, by 1928, presumably from its "penetrating" effects on the drinker.

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1. "Have you read the whole book?" she asks, gimlet-eyed.: “整本书你都读完了吗？”她目光敏锐地问道。

2. Tu Wei - yueh's face was dark now , and his gimlet eyes bored into Mo Kan - cheng's.: 屠维岳铁青着脸, 尖利的眼光逼住了莫干丞.

5. In person, he has the air of a philosophy professor rather than a gimlet － eyed financier.: 索罗斯本人并不像一个目光敏锐的金融家, 他更具有哲学教授的气质.