spitfire 英 ['spɪtfaɪə]   美 ['spɪt,faɪr]

spitfire

spitfire  英 ['spɪtfaɪə] 美 ['spɪt,faɪr]

n. 喷火的东西;烈性子的人 

名词复数:spitfires 

Last night he said: 'We've tried to create a new British design icon, like Concorde, the spitfire or the Routemaster bus. 昨晚他这样说道:“我们要为英国创造一项新的标志,就像协和飞机,‘喷火’战斗机和双层巴士一样。”
With this remonstrance, young spitfire, whose real name was Susan Nipper, detached the child from her new friend by a wrench as if she were a tooth. 这个喷火器的真实姓名是苏珊•尼珀,她进行了这番申斥之后,就像拔牙似地用力一拧,把女孩子从她的新朋友那里拉开了。

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  • n. 喷火的东西;烈性子的人
  • 1. Last night he said: 'We've tried to create a new British design icon, like Concorde, the spitfire or the Routemaster bus.

    昨晚他这样说道:“我们要为英国创造一项新的标志,就像协和飞机,‘喷火’战斗机和双层巴士一样。”

  • 2. With this remonstrance, young spitfire, whose real name was Susan Nipper, detached the child from her new friend by a wrench as if she were a tooth.

    这个喷火器的真实姓名是苏珊•尼珀,她进行了这番申斥之后,就像拔牙似地用力一拧,把女孩子从她的新朋友那里拉开了。

  • 3. It is no accient, he would claim, that Mitchell's spitfire, with its Merlin engines and distinctive wings, could help win a war while also seeming wonderful to the eye and ear.

    他指出,米切尔设计的喷火式战斗机正是凭借其采用的马林引擎和独特的机翼,在取得战斗胜利的同时还能给人带来视觉和听觉的享受。

  • 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).
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