brunt的意思|brunt的解释-里氏词典

brunt [brʌnt]

n. 主要冲力, 冲击

He had to bear the brunt of the blame.
他只好成为众矢之的。
The naughty boy did not like to bear the brunt.
那个淘气的男孩不愿接受指责。
His secretary has to bear the brunt of his temper.
他的秘书成了他的出气筒。

brunt

[ noun ]
main force of a blow etc
<noun.attribute>
bore the brunt of the attack

Brunt \Brunt\ (br[u^]nt), n. [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna
to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. {Burn}, v. t.]
1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or
greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a
battle.

2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. ``And heavy brunt
of cannon ball.'' --Hudibras.

It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our
first brunt with some real affair of common life.
--I. Taylor.

The flow continued to increase and Hong Kong has borne the brunt. In 1988, it stopped granting automatic refugee status to all boat people.
"Here I am taking the brunt for it.
By 1960 there were 200,000 and by 1990 just 70,000. The consensus is that there will be only 50,000 to 60,000 cafes left by the year 2000. Small cafes have borne the brunt of the decline.
Chatilla bore the brunt of fighting between PLO guerrillas and Shiite Moslem Amal militiamen in their three-year war for control of the Palestinian refugee camps.
The property sector, 2.7 per cent lower, bore the brunt of the selling pressure. AUSTRALIA recouped much of its early loss to close only slightly down on the day.
Export-oriented stocks took the brunt of the sell-off, with shares of the best-known international companies leading the market lower.
Reports of unrest in the 350,000-member corps arose after a U.N.-sponsored truce Aug. 20 halted eight years of war with Iraq, in which the Revolutionary Guards bore the brunt of fighting and suffered the heaviest casualties.
Badly outspent in the South, he bore the brunt of negative ads run by his rivals and a series of damaging profiles on network news shows last week.
Rail station in Davos. 626 miles from Calais. FLAINE Traditionally Flaine has always borne the brunt of criticism over purpose-built French resorts, with claims that it is 'even uglier' than Tignes, Les Menuires or the worst excesses of La Plagne.
Icy air streaming over the Great Lakes spawned snow squalls throughout much of the Northeast today, with New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania getting the brunt of the frozen precipitation.
The Iraqi armed forces were led by the elite Republican Guard, which did the brunt of the fighting in the 1980-88 war with Iran.
"Their reputation is extremely high," he said in an interview, adding that Fort Halstead experts would have worked closely with experts in the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which bore the brunt of the crash, to get a "broader picture" of the crash.
It adds that this is the first time, to its knowledge, that this sort of glitch has been experienced in the card processing world. The Access banks bore the brunt of the trouble.
Residents who left the coastal town of Machilipatnam, which bore the brunt of the cyclone, said the streets were waist-deep in water.
The Revolutionary Guards bore the brunt of the fighting and repeatedly launched human-wave offensives against Iraq's formidable defenses.
Union official Ewan Abrahamse chips in: 'In the end, we'll bear the brunt of the racial tension in the workplace.
Earnings were 3.25p (4.17p). Victoria had launched a number of new products, the directors said, and this year was bearing the brunt of that investment.
The appointment on Dec. 5 was seen as part of the Singh's efforts to appease India's Moslem minority who have borne the brunt of Hindu-Moslem religious riots this fall that claimed 300 lives.
But the market's local traders bore the brunt of the selling spree, acquiring an ever-increasing volume of bond contracts that they in turn sold at lower prices to each other.
Indeed, visitors would have trouble telling Charleston took the brunt of such a severe storm.
The report found that states heavily dependent on defense contracts - California, Texas, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Virginia - will feel the brunt of significant cuts in defense spending.
British officials made clear at the weekend that the US would bear the brunt of recriminations which were bound to follow a withdrawal of the UN peace-keepers.
Lance Barnard, a former deputy prime minister of Australia, served with the 9th Australian Division, the Diggers, who took the brunt of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's fury at the end of El-Alamein's final battle.
I wonder whether she's still alive after last night's shelling," said Hoda Qannine, a housewife in Tarik Jedideh, a low-income district that took the brunt of the shelling along with the city's southern slums.
He again bore the brunt of the board's wrath when, at a December meeting, he endorsed Mr. Clore's suggestion that the company be sold.
Iredell County, N.C., received the brunt of the violent weather, with property damages estimated at $1 million.
The question is whether Mr. Bush can keep that support if wartime memories fade, international corporations begin lusting after Iraq's business and Iraqi civilians are seen bearing the brunt of economic pain and Saddam Hussein remains immovable.
She denied there was any reason to resent Bosnian Serbs because Serbia had to bear the brunt of the new sanctions regime.
Lockerbie bore the brunt of the Boeing 747's flaming wreckage when it fell out of the sky on Dec. 21.
Texas got the brunt of the severe storms earlier, with tornadoes and hail striking the Panhandle.

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