英语单词 | quash |
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英美音标 | 英 [kwɒʃ] 美 [kwɔːʃ] |
中文释义 | v.镇压;撤销;平息 |
英语例句 | (1) The army was called in to quash the revolt. (2) The applicant sought judicial review to quash the order. (3) The appeal court quashed the care order made by the juvenile court. (4) I was about to learn how to quash hunger. (5) Growth, translated into jobs, is designed to quash the risk of social instability. |
中文例句 | (1) 军队被调来镇压叛乱。 (2) 申请人寻求司法复审以撤消命令。 (3) 上诉法院撤销了少年法院发出的照看令。 (4) 我要面对的就是如何驱走饥饿。 (5) 经济增长带动就业增加,意在消除社会不稳定风险。 |
vocabulary简明 | Quash means to put down, stop, extinguish, and it’s usually used to talk about ideas, feelings, or political movements. You wouldn’t quash a grape underfoot; you would squash it. But if you were a military dictator, you would quash a revolution. |
vocabulary扩展 | Quash is an extreme word. It comes from the French word for smash, or shatter. If something is quashed it is completely suppressed, usually by something or someone very powerful or authoritative. If you wrote a poem and asked your favorite teacher to read it, and that teacher tore it to pieces, then your hopes were most likely quashed. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]撤销,废止(决定或判决);宣布无效 If a court or someone in authority quashes a decision or judgment, they officially reject it. [V n]
2 [VERB 动词]平息,制止,澄清(谣言) If someone quashes rumours, they say or do something to demonstrate that the rumours are not true. [V n]
3 [VERB 动词]镇压;压制;平定 To quash a rebellion or protest means to stop it, often in a violent way. [V n]
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