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v. 咬住(折断,关上,排出,搭锁,扣板机)
a. 圆头的

  1. The fish snapped at the bait.
    那鱼一下子咬住了鱼饵。
  2. Suddenly the branch that he was standing on snapped off.
    他踩著的树枝突然啪的一声折断了.



Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Snapping}.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin
to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel
beak, bill. Cf. {Neb}, {Snaffle}, n.]
1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are
brittle.

Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior.

2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has
been snapped by it at last. --South.

4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat
snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville.

5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to
snap a whip.

MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W.
Scott.

6. To project with a snap.

7. (Cricket) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just
snicked a bowled ball).
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{To snap back} (Football), to roll the ball back with the
foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers
the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both
sides are ranged in line.

{To snap off}.
(a) To break suddenly.
(b) To bite off suddenly.

  1. In each case, Apollo arms itself beforehand with a commanding position in the company's defaulted bonds or bank debt, snapped up at a big discount to face value.
  2. A man who threatened to loose a 500-pound Bengal tiger on the Louisiana State University campus unless given a job "snapped" and deserves compassion, the school's basketball coach said Thursday.
  3. "I never said that, Al," snapped Dukakis, who racked up a big win in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
  4. In 1978 the College of Cardinals snapped the 456-year-old Italian monopoly on the papacy by electing Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland as Pope John Paul II.
  5. And, although notices of intentions to deliver coffee against September futures have been heavy for two days, the coffee was snapped up, said Judith Ganes, senior futures analyst at Merrill Lynch.
  6. Halicki died when a cable attached to the tower snapped and severed a telephone pole, which fell on him shortly before 6 p.m., Police Officer Michael Thorp said in nearby Tonawanda.
  7. He contends that the Pebble Beach trademark protects only the company's distinct logo rendering of the tree with waves in the background, and that after 100 years of being freely snapped, the tree is now in the public domain.
  8. But it snapped back to climb 1.6% against the Japanese yen and 1.1% against the West German mark.
  9. The July 19 issue was snapped up by U.S. institutional investors hungry for old-fashioned, triple-A bonds, even if they aren't American.
  10. Ralph Acampora, a technical analyst at Kidder Peabody, said that three consecutive days with more than 1,000 declining issues on the Big Board usually indicate that an uptrend has been snapped.
  11. In the first two months of 1988, Standard & Poor's reports, investors snapped up more than $3.5 billion in shares of these investments.
  12. For a start, the group's financial backers will no longer be able to tell UK investors that, if they do not pile in, the issue will snapped up in the US.
  13. On a recent afternoon, a family from Malaysia, a foursome from Great Britain and a Swedish man toured the ranch and snapped pictures.
  14. As a result, the stock market snapped back to life at midsession after drifting at slightly higher levels on light volume throughout the morning.
  15. The frostbitten West got a brief respite today from cold that ravaged citrus fruit, snapped water pipes and threatened lives, but it still was unusually brisk for the rest of the United States.
  16. Betting on lower inflation, investors also snapped up long-term Treasury bonds.
  17. When the best examples make it on to the counter or into the shop window; they are snapped up by the trade. Salerooms attract a lot of the fine jewels on the market.
  18. The most spectacular example of rationalisation has been provided by the T Cowie group which in November snapped up the Royal Bank of Scotland's loss-making Royscot subsidiary for Pounds 38m.
  19. The snapped tail boom caused the plane's huge 112-foot long wings to break, dropping the pink-and-silver aircraft 10 feet into the water.
  20. Profit-taking on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, triggered when an expected interest-rate cut didn't materialize, snapped the Nikkei stock average's string of five consecutive record closes yesterday.
  21. Investors snapped up the shares of those retailers with the biggest jump in same-store sales for the month.
  22. Prices of the biggest over-the-counter stocks surged yesterday, as institutional buyers snapped up Nasdaq issues with nearly as much enthusiasm as they showed for exchange-listed issues.
  23. The funkier styles are snapped up by super-models, such as Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer, or by the new generation of French stars, like Vanessa Paradis, the pouting 'tweetiepie' in Chanel's Coco commercial.
  24. Hong Kong stocks eased in active trading, as sharp early gains gave way to profit-taking that snapped a five-session rally in what was described as a classic bull-market consolidation.
  25. Others snapped up bunches of onions, plastic sacks of apples and green, unripe Cuban grapefruit.
  26. The 729-foot steel freighter took on water and snapped in two during a storm in November 1975, sending it and all 29 crewmen to the bottom of Lake Superior.
  27. Showers and thunderstorms in west Texas on Thursday evening generated strong winds that snapped power lines and blew the awnings off buildings in Plainview.
  28. In Grayville, Ill., a tornado snapped trees and utility poles and overturned cars and trucks.
  29. Agriculture snapped back quickly.
  30. ONCE THE PICTURES are snapped, the challenge is to get photographers to order more prints.
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