pat的意思|pat的解释-里氏词典

Pat \Pat\, adv.
In a pat manner.

I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.
--Sterne.

Pat \Pat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Patted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Patting}.] [Cf. G. patschen, Prov. G. patzen, to strike,
tap.]
To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly;
to tap; as, to pat a dog.

Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. --Pope.

Pat \Pat\, n.
1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a
tap.

2. A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.

It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
--Dickens.

Pat \Pat\, a. [Cf. pat a light blow, D. te pas convenient, pat,
where pas is fr. F. passer to pass.]
Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. ``Pat allusion.''
--Barrow.

The fan says Beard deserves a hug and a "there, there" pat when he's telling folks bad news.
"It was considered good luck to pat her on the privates," writes Mr. Keillor.
They'll do anything." He arrived at the White House in Washington by helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base to be greeted on the South Lawn by his wife Barbara, who got a kiss, and dog Millie, who got a pat.
"I heard him sneeze once," he added. "I practiced his sneeze." Arthur Marx said Ferrante cares about his father's life and doesn't merely imitate the pat mannerisms _ the cigar-chomping, the bow-legged walk, the shifty eyebrows, the one-liners.
"Bush could go on TV with Millie alongside, pat her on the head, and say this is not a tax, it's a user fee.
Many colleagues approached him to shake hands or pat him on the shoulder.
"He has been let off with a pat on the back," said Jeremy Corbyn, a Labor member of Parliament.
But the drivers had pat alibis: They had done their picking elsewhere and were just joy riding.
The gathering starts with his announcement of the price of GE stock and sometimes includes his card tricks or a pat on the back for a scientist.
"He's going to do just fine," Bush said, at one point giving Quayle's arm a fatherly pat.
He has, after all, been writing familiar essays for a long time, and he has his moves down pat.
No pat wisdoms are dispensed by Mikhalkov about inter-ethnic accord; no laboured exposition is offered about contrary lifestyles. Instead the film has a puffball tragicomic fragility.
But blaming the fiasco on incompetent or unqualified personnel is too pat an answer.
His wife pretended to pat him on the back of the head and, believe you me, watching it slide back up was pretty unnerving,' he says.
There has been considerably less shrinkage in the assets of funds sold through brokers, who are encouraging investors to stand pat.
For years, the industry standard has been one teaspoon, or about one butter pat.
The 19-week-old princess, the newest member of Britain's royal family, got a calming pat on the back from her mother after the archbishop poured the water on her forehead in a ceremony that made her a member of the Church of England.
By now, Mrs. Dole has "the speech" down pat.
"We're not interested in giving students pat answers but to introduce them to moral issues," said Clarence Walton, chairman of Andersen's ethics advisory group and former president of Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
So Mr Clarke got a pat on the back for reducing export guarantee premiums.

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