gouging的意思|gouging的解释-里氏词典

gouging [gaʊdʒ]

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A maniac had gouged several holes in the priceless painting.
有个狂徒在那幅价值连城的画上乱凿了几个洞.
He had his eyes gouged out.
他两眼被挖出。
Suitable for MMA, argon arc, arc gouging welding.
可用于手工电弧焊、弧焊、弧气刨.

Bouge \Bouge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gouged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gouging}.]
1. To scoop out with a gouge.

2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out
the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]

Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly
practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some
parts of the United States.

3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]

Big increases in retail prices since October were caused by a combination of price gouging by some businessmen and a lack of government information on the new tax and how it should be applied.
Those supporting government control of markets might argue that the absence of price regulation would lead to price gouging and profiteering by insurers.
Those moves were called "opportunistic" and "gouging" by Dan Smith, consumer affairs director of the International Airline Passengers Association in Dallas.
Mayor Joseph Riley Jr. defined price gouging as selling items at prices substantially higher than prices before the storm. "It's hard to define but I know it when I see it," he said.
In addition, the oil giants are under increasing pressure by both the government and consumer groups to hold down gasoline prices amid charges of price gouging.
"There is a problem with gouging," said John Lawson, a spokesman for the state Emergency Preparedness Division.
The rules also allow investors to refuse to pay unreasonable charges and to appeal cases of alleged price gouging to a grievance board working under the powerful State Economic Commission.
To many, price gouging is unconscionable, especially when someone else profits at your expense.
Inspectors are spot-checking New Orleans' 1,615 taxi drivers for price gouging, faulty meters and other mechanical problems in anticipation of next week's Republican National Convention.
If you were next in line, then that was it." Each B-52 dropped 30 tons of bombs in "boxes" half a mile wide and two miles long, gouging out permanent craters.
Increases of 30 percent to 50 percent in public transport tariffs and price gouging by bus drivers acted as a detonator for an economy in rapid deterioration.
U.S. Sens. James Exon and Bob Kerrey, both Nebraska Democrats, called on Thornburgh to investigate potential price gouging by the industry since the spill.
Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., his baby face now haggard, quickly helped to set $200 fines and 30-day jail terms for those caught price gouging.
Oil companies have disputed charges they are gouging consumers.
ARCO froze its prices to counter charges that oil companies were gouging customers following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Republican Bill Price filed the suit after Walters alleged he was involved in oil price gouging.
Mr. Driscoll would have us put up with price gouging in the belief that by turning a blind eye we are encouraging development of more treatments and cures.
The deep store route would involve gouging out caverns in the rock half a mile below the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria. This store would be for intermediate-level waste.
"There could be gouging," he said. "There could be stockpiling.
Moreover, because banks control the prime rate, some groups fear the possibility of future gouging, particularly because consumers have fewer credit options than corporations.
The theory requires an asteroid about 6 miles in diameter gouging out a crater up to 150 miles wide.
Walters countered with his own allegations, including those of oil price gouging.
In the second of three hearings on the oil industry, Lieberman continued to pursue the question of whether oil companies and oil producing nations are unfairly gouging consumers.
The Senate has already passed, by a margin large enough to override a veto, a bill designed to stop price gouging in the cable television industry.

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