| 英语单词 | pesky |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['peski] 美 ['peski] |
| 中文释义 | adj.讨厌的;烦人的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Those pesky salesmen always call at dinner time. (2) It also prevents any more pesky calls from Geneva. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 那些讨厌的推销员总是在吃晚饭的时候打电话。 (2) 此外它还避免了来自日内瓦的恼人之声。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Anything pesky is annoying. Pesky things get on your nerves, like pesky mosquitoes that ruin an outdoor movie or pesky ants that march away with all of your picnic food. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Pesky things are irritating, like small children who poke you on the leg for ten minutes while you try to discuss Nietzsche. A pesky fly dive-bombs by your head all afternoon. An itch you can't reach is pesky. The word pesky is an old word from New England, as in “like a pest,” but in a funny accent. Different people find different things pesky, but pesky things are never terrible, just very annoying. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]恼人的;讨厌的 Pesky means irritating. [ADJ n] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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