knocker
英 [ˈnɒkə(r)]
美 [ˈnɑːkər]
n. (固定在门上供敲门用的)门环; 吹毛求疵的人; 一味批评的人; (冒犯语)乳房,奶子
复数:knockers
BNC.16990 / COCA.24516
牛津词典
noun
- (固定在门上供敲门用的)门环
a metal object attached to the outside of the door of a house, etc. which you hit against the door to attract attention - 吹毛求疵的人;一味批评的人
a person who is always criticizing sb/sth - (冒犯语)乳房,奶子
an offensive word for a woman's breasts
柯林斯词典
- See also:knock
英英释义
noun
- a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
- a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)
- open the door and see who the knocker is
- (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way
双语例句
- As Scrooge looked fixedly at this uncommon thing, it became a knocker again.
当史克鲁奇目不转晴地注视这个怪东西时,它又变成了一个门环。 - He has to pay cash on the knocker.
他必须立即支付现金。 - Before she looked at Walter she looked at the knocker, and then, measuring him with her eyes from head to foot, said she wondered he had left any of it.
她在看沃尔特之前先看了一下门环,然后用眼睛把他从头到脚打量了一下,说她很奇怪,门环居然还在门上,没有被他完全打落下来。 - To be a man whose word carries weight. To be a booster, not a knocker; a pusher, not a kicker; a motor, not a clog.
做一个一言九鼎的人;做一个支持者而不是一个吹毛求疵者,一个推动者而不是一个抱怨者,一个马达而不是一个障碍。 - He began to work on the knocker.
他又开始逐户推销。 - What a knocker he is; no matter what we suggest, he finds fault with it
他真是个吹毛求疵的人;不管我们提议什麽他都能挑出毛病来 - Her chest rose with indignation, but before she could find a reply, the door knocker sounded again and Albert went to answer it.
她的胸一上一下,都是气的,可是她还没有想好什么样回答,就又有人敲门了,阿伯特去开门了。 - The elder of the men lifted the knocker and rapped.
年纪较老的那个男人提起门锤来敲了几下。 - The totem of the front door is the knocker, a mechanism which announces arrival and allows the visitor to engage with the building.
房屋前门的图腾是门环,它宣告客人的到来,并使得来访者与建筑产生接触。 - It was expounded about the structure, work principle and field test effect of water power jar knocker with slide valve.
阐述了滑阀式水力振动器的结构、工作原理和现场试验效果。