rapped v. 敲击;突然大声说出;(非正式)严厉批评;唱说唱歌;(非正式)交谈(rap 的过去式和过去分词)
- The judge rapped the police.
法官严厉指责警察。 - He rapped out a series of curt commands.
他大声发出了一连串简短的命令。 - The judge rapped the police for their treatment of the witness.
法官因警察对待证人的态度而厉声斥责他们。
Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Rapping}.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke,
Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.]
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
the door.
Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually
written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin
to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan.
rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush,
hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize.
Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H.
Wotton.
2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
--Addison.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
[PJC]
6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
some as a type of music; see {rap music}.
[PJC]
{To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
Rapped \Rapped\ (r[a^]pt),
imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to strike.
Rapped \Rapped\,
imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away.