snook

英 [snuːk]

美 [snuːk]

网络  斯诺克; 努克; 军曹鱼; 锯盖鱼; 史努克

过去式：snook　

BNC.41529

习惯用语

n.

cock a snook at sb/sth
• （说话或做事）明显地表示蔑视；轻蔑；不屑一顾
  to say or do sth that clearly shows you do not respect sb/sth
• to cock a snook at authority
  蔑视权威

英英释义

noun

• large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters

双语例句

• 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.
  穷人和一些对社会感到厌烦的人们对警察和那些经营自己业务的“富人”嗤之以鼻以及不屑一顾是有点可笑的。
• Snook said Riddell planned to represent himself in court.
  斯努克表示，里德尔将会在法庭上进行自我辩护。
• He ended up getting more letters from Riddell and almost daily phone calls. Then, when he saw Riddell at a hearing, Snook said he started getting very suspicious.
  斯努克后来又接到了多封来自里德尔的信件且双方几乎每天通一次电话。当他某一天在一次听证会上见到里德尔后，他对里德尔身份的怀疑开始加剧。
• It's been two hundred years since an Indian cocked a snook at the British Empire and got away with it.
  两百年来能如此藐视大英帝国而且平安无事的印度人就只有你而已。
• He's called snook, and he lives in a village of that ilk.
  他叫斯努克，住在斯努克村。
• The boy cocked a snook at the policemen's back after being scolded.
  那男孩在被训斥之后在警察背后做蔑视的手势。
• Snook are object-oriented as well, and are ambushing predators.
  斯努克，以及是物件导向的并被埋伏的犯罪分子。
• Amelia took regular flying lessons from her instructor NETA snook.
  她的指导老师耐塔。斯努克给她上常规的飞行课。
• Tories cocked a snook at their prime minister over this legislation.
  保守党人就这一法规向他们的首相表示了轻蔑。
• He could seldom resist an opportunity to cock a snook at traditional English life.
  他从来不放过对传统的英国式生活表示轻蔑的机会。