sniping 狙击
- Sniping may be a problem and senior officers must exercise due care when travelling about their areas.
放冷枪进行暗算可能是个大问题,所以高级军官路经他们地区时必须小心防范。 - Our soldiers sniped at enemy.
我们的士兵狙击了敌人。
Snipe \Snipe\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sniped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sniping}.]
1. To shoot or hunt snipe.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To shoot at detached men of an enemy's forces at long
range, esp. when not in action; -- often with at.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{snipe at}, to aim petty or snide criticisms at (a person) in
his absence.
[PJC]
- More vigorously than ever, they are sniping at each other's advertising, each trying to make the other taboo among teen-agers.
- It accused ethnic Albanian "nationalists and separatists" of fomenting unrest and sniping at police from buildings and rooftops.
- Shepard, who is active in the Republican Party, said he even got sniping comments from ranking GOP leaders in Washington.
- While the bond itself was widely agreed to be successful and well executed, Sakura came in for some sniping in the market for indulging in that traditional Japanese activity, taking a long-term strategic view which overrides other considerations.
- That has led to sniping from some rival firms, which claim Andersen is in a different market, invalidating comparisons of the figures. 'Methinks they protest too much,' says Mr Keith Burgess, head of Andersen's consulting arm.
- The fighting tapered into sporadic sniping at midmorning.
- The decision to sweep through the areas and make arrests came after sniping incidents increased, police said.
- Since the crash, many pundits have been burnishing their image and sniping at one another.
- Bosnia's rival Serbs and Moslems yesterday signed a UN-brokered accord to halt sniping in Sarajevo within 24 hours and promised to patrol high-risk areas with UN peacekeepers to stop disobedient marksmen.
- Norman Schwarzkopf's astonishing Wednesday press conference was sweet vindication after 20 years of press sniping and elite sneers.
- Both are contenders for the future Tory leadership. Neither seems willing to call a halt to the sniping that could destroy their inheritance. Publicly, cabinet ministers insist the divisions can be bridged, the wounds healed.
- And even though aides to Mr. Regan have been sniping fiercely at Mr. Buchanan in the press, suggesting he has "out-Agnewed Agnew," they are unsure how to regain the political initiative.
- Steelmakers, in turn, are working hand-in-hand with auto makers to slash the cost of producing automotive parts, and sniping that plastic cars would litter the environment because they can't be melted down and recycled.
- 'The sides shall undertake within 24 hours to issue publicly orders which explicitly forbid sniping activities against military personnel, civilians and UN personnel in the Sarajevo region,' the agreement said.
- The Indiana senator declared Wednesday that he was fed up with the rigid control and anonymous sniping from Bush aides and is now "my own handler." "It was a very controlled environment.
- He also endured sniping from the pro-quota lobbyists during his eight years as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
- Mr. Stockman stayed on, but the sniping continued.
- They have not caused us any difficulty yet, but they have the potential of sniping and things like that.
- "We just can't continue to have this kind of sniping and political warfare going on at the same time we're trying to deal with a serious problem," said House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta, D-Calif.