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 grapeshot ['grep`ʃɑt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 霰弹, 葡萄弹

  1. The young general Bonaparte's pounding of the Paris mob to pieces in1795 called in playful approval by our respectable classes" the whiff of grapeshot".
    1795年,年轻的波拿巴将军接连不断地向巴黎民众开炮,我们可敬的上层阶级把这种炮击叫做“一小阵葡萄弹雨”。
  2. My only quarrel with the plot of the novel is that a whiff of grapeshot is more likely to move the electorate in favour of the Government in power than against it, especially if it is a Conservative Government.
    我对小说情节的惟一争论是,一阵小弹丸更可能激起选民支持执政的政府,而不是去反对它,对保守党政府尤其如此。


grapeshot
[ noun ]
a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
<noun.artifact>


Grapeshot \Grape"shot`\, n. (Mil.)
A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put
together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and
bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in
order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot
were inclosed in canvas bags.

  1. It is accustomed to the Gary Harts and Joe Bidens, who capitulate the moment they cannot win, or to a Mike Dukakis, who flops around and cashiers his point men at the first whiff of grapeshot.
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