spitfire
英 ['sp?tfa??]
美['sp?t,fa?r]
- n. 噴火的東西；烈性子的人
英文詞源
- spitfire (n.)
- 1610s, "a cannon," from spit (v.) + fire (n.); c. 1600 as an adjective. Meaning "irascible, passionate person" is from 1670s. Replaced earlier shitfire (similar formation in Florentine cacafuoco).
雙語例句
- 1. A year later, in 1944, his Spitfire had been shot down over Italy.
- 一年后的1944年, 牛脾氣的史密斯先生再次加入了抗擊意大利的行列.
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- 2. Yet friends say they will most remember the spitfire Margaret of her '60 s and '70 s heyday.
- 但朋友們說,他們將永遠(yuǎn)不會忘記六七十年代處于黃金時(shí)代那個(gè)熱情如火的瑪格麗特.
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- 3. Taken on Spitfire Lake in the Adirondack Park at around 7 a.m.
- 阿迪朗達(dá)克州立公園內(nèi)的噴火湖,攝于清晨7時(shí)許.
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