英语单词 | hurl |
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英美音标 | 英 [hɜːl] 美 [hɜːrl] |
中文释义 | v.用力投掷;愤慨地说出;丢下 |
英语例句 | (1) The hunter hurled his spear at the tiger. (2) I'll hurl him out of the club if he dare tell the secret! (3) To hurl abuse is in no way to fight. (4) Businessmen will hurl their money about to get noticed. |
中文例句 | (1) 猎人用力把他的长矛向虎投去。 (2) 如果他胆敢泄密,我就要把他赶出俱乐部。 (3) 谩骂决不是战斗。 (4) 商人愿意挥霍钱财来引起注意。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you hurl something, you throw it hard. You might hurl your shoe at a horrible bug if it suddenly scuttled across the floor. |
vocabulary扩展 | If you hurl a rock at a glass window, it will probably break, and if you hurl your trash in the direction of a garbage can, it may or may not land inside. The verb hurl implies some force behind your throw. The earliest English version was hurlen, which in the thirteenth century meant "run against each other or collide." It probably comes from the Germanic root hurr, which is also the root of hurry, and means "rapid motion." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]猛投;用力掷 If you hurl something, you throw it violently and with a lot of force. [V n prep] [V n with adv] [V n]
2 [VERB 动词]气势汹汹地吐(恶言) If you hurl abuse or insults at someone, you shout insults at them aggressively. [V n [Also V n]
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