| 英语单词 | brunt |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [brʌnt] 美 [brʌnt] |
| 中文释义 | n.正面的冲击;主要的压力 |
| 英语例句 | (1) I seriously doubt their contentions will bear the brunt of close scrutiny. (2) But other cities such as Beer Sheva and Ashdod have taken the brunt today. (3) She had to bear the brunt of the criticisms. (4) These exhausted men carried the brunt of the war. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我非常怀疑他们的观点能经受住仔细审查的冲击。 (2) 对其他城市来说,如比尔谢瓦和阿什多德,今天就已首当其冲了。 (3) 她不得不承受批评的压力。 (4) 这些疲倦的士兵承受了战场上的主要压力。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If you are the oldest child, you might bear the brunt of your parents' anger, even if you are not the instigator of the misdeed. Brunt means the worst part of something. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When Canadian geese fly south, they travel in a V-formation, with the bird at point bearing the brunt of the headwind. One way to remember the word brunt is that words that sound like it—grunt and blunt—are also about being tough or absorbing pain. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [PHRASE 短语]承受主要压力;首当其冲 To bear the brunt or take the brunt of something unpleasant means to suffer the main part or force of it. [V inflects]
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