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rat-tail

['rætteil]

解释

n. 尖尾，铸铁鼠尾

※ 提供单词"rat-tail"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。

英文词源

rat-tail (n.): also rat's-tail, used since 16c. of conditions or devices held to resemble a rat's long, hairless tail in some sense, including "lank lock of hair" (1810); "end of a rope" (1867); from rat (n.) + tail (n.1).

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例句和用法

1. If I don't send a picture, he will smell a rat.: 如果我不寄出照片，他将有所察觉。

2. They were accused of encouraging children to rat on their parents.: 他们被指控唆使儿童告发自己的父母。

3. Captain Hardnose certainly ran that rat over the hill.: 哈得诺思上尉当然要求那个告密者离职了.

4. The lab assistant injected the rat with the new drug.: 实验室助手给老鼠注射了那种新药.

5. He was wet all over like a drowned rat.: 他浑身湿得像只落汤鸡.