Cudgel
[ ['kʌdʒəl] ]
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n. 棍棒\\nvt. 用棍棒打
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
cudgel
n
1 short thick stick or club 粗而短的棍棒.
2 (idm 习语) take up the cudgels for/on behalf of sb/sth (start to) defend or support sb/sth strongly （奋起）保卫或支持某人[某事物]. cudgel, v (-ll; US also -l-)
1 [Tn] hit (sb) with a cudgel 用粗而短的棍棒打（某人）.
2 (idm 习语) cudgel one's `brains think very hard 冥思苦索; 绞尽脑汁
Hard as I cudgelled my brains, I couldn't remember her name. 尽管我苦思苦想, 还是想不起她的名字.
🗣️ 情景例句
No, thank you. Please tell him to phone me when he comes back.
不了，谢谢。他回来时，请告诉他给我打个电话。
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
错无分大小，有错皆不好。
The little baskets were empty and the ground was covered with pieces of paper, cigarette ends, old tyres, empty bottles and rusty tins.
废物筐是空的，而满地都是纸片、烟头、旧轮胎，空瓶子和生锈的空罐头盒。