英语单词 | disarm |
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英美音标 | 英 [dɪs'ɑːm] 美 [dɪs'ɑːrm] |
中文释义 | v.放下武器;裁军;解除武装;缓和 |
英语例句 | (1) It is difficult to persuade them to disarm. (2) The superpowers are unlikely to disarm completely. (3) The police disarmed the criminal. (4) The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. (5) We didn't trust him at first, but his charming manner completely disarmed us. |
中文例句 | (1) 要说服他们放下武器是很难的。 (2) 超级大国不太可能彻底裁军。 (3) 警察缴下了罪犯的枪械。 (4) 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。 (5) 我们开始时并不信任他,但他令人愉快的举止完全消除了我们的疑虑。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you disarm someone, you take their weapons away from them. An archery instructor might, for example, disarm a student if he wasn't handling his bow and arrow carefully. |
vocabulary扩展 | To disarm is to remove a gun, knife — or any kind of weapon — from someone's hands, or from a group of people. A government might work to disarm a rebel group, for example, and police officers sometimes offer to pay money for guns in an attempt to disarm citizens. You can also use the verb to mean "win someone over," like when you disarm a cranky store cashier with your friendly smile. Disarm has an Old French root word, desarmer. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]缴…的械;解除…的武装 To disarm a person or group means to take away all their weapons. [V n]
2 [VERB 动词]裁军;解除武装;裁减军备(尤指核武器) If a country or group disarms, it gives up the use of weapons, especially nuclear weapons. [V] [V pron-refl]
3 [VERB 动词]消除(某人)的怒气(或不满、批评等) If a person or their behaviour disarms you, they cause you to feel less angry, hostile, or critical towards them. [V n]
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