bully的意思|bully的解释-里氏词典

bully ['bʊlɪ]

n. 欺凌弱小者, 土霸

vt. 威胁, 恐吓, 欺负

vi. 欺负

a. 特好的, 第一流的

ad. 十分

[经] 油矿工人

The manager tried to bully his men into working harder by threatening them with dismissal.
经理企图以解雇来威胁，迫使职工更卖力气。
He was bullied by the older boys at school.
他在学校里受到大孩子的欺负。
You've solved the puzzle at last? Well, bully for you!
你最後把这难题解决啦? 哦, 你可真棒!

bully
bullied

[ noun ]

a cruel and brutal fellow

<noun.person>

a hired thug

<noun.person>

[ verb ]

be bossy towards

<verb.emotion>

Her big brother always bullied her when she was young

discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

very good

<adj.all>

he did a bully job

a neat sports car

had a great time at the party

you look simply smashing

Bully \Bul"ly\, v. i.
To act as a bully[1].

Bully \Bul"ly\ (b[.u]l"l[y^]), n.; pl. {Bullies}
(b[u^]l"l[i^]z). [Cf. LG. bullerjaan, bullerb["a]k,
bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to
bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover,
G. buhle.]
1. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous,
who threatens, intimidates, or badgers people who are
smaller or weaker than he is; an insolent, tyrannical
fellow.

Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in.
--Palmerston.

2. A brisk, dashing fellow. [Slang Obs.] --Shak.

Bully \Bul"ly\ (b[.u]l"l[y^]), n., Bully beef \Bul"ly beef`\
(b[.u]l"l[y^] b[=e]f`). [F. bouilli boiled meat, fr. bouillir
to boil. See {Boil}, v. The word bouilli was formerly
commonly used on the labels of canned beef.]
Pickled or canned beef.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Bully \Bul"ly\ (b[.u]l"l[y^]), a.
1. Jovial and blustering; dashing. [Slang] ``Bless thee,
bully doctor.'' --Shak.

2. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse. [Slang, U.S.]

Bully \Bul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bullied} (b[.u]l"l[=e]d);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Bullying}.]
To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing,
swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully[1] toward.

For the last fortnight there have been prodigious
shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French,
upon hearing the peace was just signing. --Tatler.

Syn: To bluster; swagger; hector; domineer.

bully \bul"ly\ (b[.u]l"l[y^]), interj.
Well done! Excellent!
[PJC]

They simmer in the current national campaign, and religious scholars say Reagan has excelled at using his office as a "bully pulpit" for his upbeat-style sermonizing.
By the late 1930s, he had appeared as the bully in at least eight Little Rascals features.
Mr. Gill believes neither story and describes her as a harridan who pestered and tried to bully her son as long as she lived and, worse, as "ambitious, half-mad, sexually cold and drearily self-righteous."
Adam & Eve contended that the Utah prosecution was aimed at derailing the company's earlier civil lawsuit against the Justice Department, which accuses the government of trying to bully the company out of business.
Swayze ("Dirty Dancing") gets the job done as a sort of next-generation, shirtless Clint Eastwood, playing a squinty-eyed loner from out of town who takes on the local bully.
You can tell a bully - they are the ones who always pick fights with much smaller people.
There is the anti-smoking campaign (with the papers carrying a daily picture of a healthy non-smoker), the anti-road bully campaign, the speak Mandarin campaign.
"A person with an eating disorder will often bully the family into having turkey without all the trimmings, or refuse to participate in the holiday meal at all," he says.
And when we don't stand up to one bully, other bullies get worse.
Atwater's answer was to call Dole "a typical schoolyard bully _ he can dish it out but if someone hits him back, he starts whining."
Rick Schroder is a genuine terror as Johnny, the violent bully of a son who meets an untimely death not a minute too soon at the hands of a younger brother.
U S West is pursuing "a schoolyard bully approach to deregulation," says Renz Jennings, a member of Arizona's Public Utilities Commission.
Some British institutional investors were turned off when the Americans tried to bully them into accepting a friendly bid by threatening to create a stalemate with the large minority stake the Americans owned, according to people familiar with the deal.
"What we're confronting is a classic bully who thinks he can get away with kicking sand in the face of the world," he told soldiers and airmen at an Air Force command center in Dhahran.
It also marked the unleashing of a bully.
During the trial, State's Attorney Thomas F. Baker conceded that Iandola was a "bully" who brutalized his family but said Mrs. Iandola should have deserted him or sought protection from the police or social agencies.
He would bully, bruise and batter others in his determination to make his point.' General Sir Edward Spears, who knew Churchill during the first world war, saw a different fault.
But the clips of the amusing old shows don't last long enough, and the sequences of the bully boys at the BBC battling over which technology to develop last forever.
"The trucker is often a bully," says Mr. La Londe.
Is he a brutalising bully who hides behind a sheriff's badge and stoical cowboy code?
A 12-year-old boy set afire by a neighborhood bully picked his accused assailant's picture from among photographs brought to his bedside just hours later, an investigator testified Wednesday.
The idea seems to be that good U.S. relations with Laos might help lure the neighborhood bully, Vietnam, toward liberal ways.
He looks like Porky Pig's evil twin, a porcine bully harassing the weak but running away from the strong.
The boy was on his way to school when a bully forced him into a building, tied him to a railing and set him afire, police said. David, who allegedly was robbed by the same boy a day earlier, suffered burns over 55 percent of his body.
The editorial chose to view the controversy as an attempt by big government to deny beneficial medications to the public, dictate how physicians may practice medicine, and bully the pharmaceutical industry.
Tiny, fat Elector Frederick William was a liberal but a bully who kicked women in the street and chased men with a cane.
His predecessor, Mr. Baker, was a master at using a combination of public statements and central-bank intervention to bully exchange markets and create at least the impression that he had them under control.
"He carries it in his head and heart wherever he goes, and he'll use the bully pulpit until the end."

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