booby的意思|booby的解释-里氏词典

booby ['bubɪ]

n. 呆子, 傻瓜

The police did not go near the abandoned car, fearing it was a booby trap.
警方没接近那辆弃置的汽车, 怕那里有饵雷.
The police did not go near the abandoned car, feared it was a booby trap.
警方没接近那辆弃置的汽车，怕那里有饵雷。
The car had been booby-trapped by terrorists.
恐怖分子在那辆汽车里安放了饵雷。

booby

[ noun ]

an ignorant or foolish person

<noun.person>

small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both

<noun.animal>

Booby \Boo"by\ (b[=oo]"b[y^]), a.
Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

Booby \Boo"by\ (b[=oo]"b[y^]), n.; pl. {Boobies} (-b[i^]z). [Sp.
bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]
1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A swimming bird ({Sula fiber} or {Sula sula}) related
to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies,
nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account
of its apparent stupidity -- unafraid of men, it
allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised
approach. The name is also sometimes applied to other
species of gannets; as, {Sula piscator}, the
{red-footed booby}; and {Sula nebouxii}, the
{blue-footed booby}.
(b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

{Booby hatch}
(a) (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily
removable.
(b), an insane asylum. [Colloq.]

{Booby hut}, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local,
U. S.] --Bartlett.

{Booby hutch}, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the
eastern part of England. --Forby.

{Booby prize}, an award for the poorest performance in a
competition; hence, metaphorically, the recognition of a
strikingly inferior or incompetent performance.

{Booby trap}
(a), a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a
door is opened.
(b), any concealed device causing surprise or injury when
a usually harmless object is touched; -- in military
operations, typically containing an explosive charge.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Two French soldiers were killed and 10 wounded, however, as they took As Salman, apparently the victims of a booby trap, mine or unexploded bomb.
The first does technical work, devising the booby traps that dot the roads patrolled by Israelis and Hezbollah's Lebanese rivals.
An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded by mistake Wednesday in an apartment booby trap set for British soldiers, killing an elderly man and a woman.
Appalachian Trail hikers have been urged not to stop or stray along a 14-mile stretch of the Maine-to-Georgia route because of a series of suspicious fires and booby traps.
"We were expecting a booby trap of some sort," said the spokesman.
But a senior officer said troops were under constant rebel fire and progress was slow because of mines buried in the streets and booby traps hidden in buildings along the way.
Connghan set two shotgun booby traps at the warehouse after a break-in in January.
Things are no better in the political arena, heavily mined with legal booby traps.
But relief workers say that the most common, and most insidious, are the so-called butterfly mines, light camouflaged explosives strewn like autumn leaves from helicopters and planes, and the booby traps planted randomly around villages.
The booby trap set at Connaghan's warehouse near downtown Denver killed McComb during a break-in the night of April 14, when McComb entered the warehouse with three friends.
In addition to the possession charges, Cherney was booked for possession of a destructive device in a public place and for possession of a booby trap.
Because of the continuing concern about booby traps, lights in the house could not be turned on.
Government troops today shot their way into an east coast town that had been in Tamil rebel hands and were sweeping it for mines and booby traps, military officials said.
Fero had been filled with hate for the Vietnamese after a booby trap blew off both of his legs.
A judge threw out a plea bargain as too generous and ordered a warehouse owner to stand trial for rigging a shotgun booby trap that killed a teen-age intruder.
Police spokesman Tom Jennings said the booby trap included two hunting rifles in separate locations, one pointing down a staircase.
Some people put up signs warning their businesses also were booby trapped.
The first step to putting out the fires, the scientists said, is to quickly clear the area of Iraqi mines and booby traps, as well as unexploded U.S. bombs, so firefighters can work safely at the wells.
We did not find an excessive incidence of poor outcomes from these birth centers." A suspected burglar was killed after setting off a booby trap rigged by a homeowner who complained of frequent break-ins.

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