snook

snook

美 [sn?k] 　英 [snu?k]

• n.鋸蓋魚科 的魚；類似鋸蓋魚科的魚；招動其余四指表示輕蔑的動作
• 網絡軍曹魚；史努克；竹簽魚

詞形變化

復數：snooks  

英漢解釋

n.	1. 鋸蓋魚科 (Centropomidae) 的魚 2. 類似鋸蓋魚科的魚 3. 〈俚〉拿拇指按著鼻尖,招動其余四指表示輕蔑的動作

英英解釋

n.	1. a large bony fish that lives in warm seas and rivers. 2. a gesture made as a sign of contempt, by putting the thumb to the nose with the fingers outstretched

例句

Poor and bored, they think it's a bit of a laugh to cock a snook at the cops, and at the "rich people" who own businesses.

窮人和一些對社會感到厭煩的人們對警察和那些經營自己業務的“富人”嗤之以鼻以及不屑一顧是有點可笑的。

Earhart excelled as a pilot. Her first instructor was Neta Snook, one of the first women to graduate from the Curtiss School of Aviation.

埃爾哈特是個優秀的駕駛員；她的第一位指導者是娜塔思努克，她是第一批自寇帝斯飛行學校畢業的女性。

Prosecutor Stephen S. Snook said he also hopes to file identity theft charges.

檢察官史蒂芬·斯努克表示，希望還能給此人再加上一條盜用他人身份的罪名。

Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu has spent much of the past month cocking a snook at the White House.

以色列總理塔尼亞胡在過去一個月里一直不把白宮放在眼里。

Another Middle Eastern friend and aid recipient, Egypt, has cocked a snook at American requests to set an example of democratic reform.

埃及是美國在中東地區的另一個朋友與受援國，但對于美國提出該國率先推行民主改革，為其他阿拉伯國家做出榜樣的要求嗤之以鼻。

The prospect of widepread price deflation worried Richard Snook, senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

廣泛的價格通縮景象讓經濟和商業研究中心的資深經濟學家理查德·史努克很擔心。

"The letter was just not what you would expect an attorney to write, " Snook said.

斯努克說：“這封信根本就不像是出自一位律師之手。”

The bad news for them is that Argentina, alone among G20 countries, has a habit of cocking a snook at ICSID rulings.

不過阿根廷也是20國集團國家之一，素來對ICSID的裁定不屑一顧，這對意大利人來說是個壞消息。

The clock is set wrong and hung crooked, AS if to cock a snook at the importance of time(Kevin Crossley - Holland)

時鐘走錯了并且吊歪了，就好象對時間的重要性不屑一顧凱文·克羅斯勒—荷蘭

The night we snook into a yacht club party

那個我們悄悄溜進一個游輪派對的夜晚