weapon

英 ['wep(ə)n] 美['wɛpən]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词arms munition

n. 武器，兵器

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中文词源

weapon 武器

来自Proto-Germanic*waepan-,武器，可能来自PIE*weip的鼻音形式，弯，转，挥舞，词源同vibrate,wipe。引申词义挥舞武器，刀剑等，最后用做武器。

词态变化

复数: weapons;

英文词源

weapon: weapon: [OE] Weapon comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wǣpnam, a source it shares with German waffe, Dutch wapen, Swedish vapen, and Danish vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic form nothing certain is known.
weapon (n.): Old English wæpen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *wæpnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic.

双语例句

1. They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal.: 他们已经无耻到把能用的武器都用上了。

2. The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.: 警察以携带攻击性武器为由逮捕了我。

3. The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon.: 该报告概述了这种新式武器的可能用途。

4. Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.: 刘易斯因非法和不安全的开枪而受到了审判。

5. Enriched uranium is a key component of a nuclear weapon.: 浓缩铀是核武器的关键组成部分。

英英释意

1. any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting;: "he was licensed to carry a weapon"

2. a means of persuading or arguing;: "he used all his conversational weapons"

考试真题

Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees ( ' , 难民), threatening political stability everywhere.

Make him learn more about weapons.

She hopes to inspire the jamaicans to lay down their weapons.

This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem--inability to read.

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration ( ' , TSA) found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons---both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

实用场景例句

nuclear weapons: 核武器

a lethal/deadly weapon: 致命武器

The police still haven't found the murder weapon .: 警方仍未找到谋杀的凶器。

He was charged with carrying an offensive weapon .: 他被指控携带攻击性武器。

Education is the only weapon to fight the spread of the disease.: 教育是战胜这一疾病蔓延的唯一手段。

Guilt is the secret weapon for the control of children.: 愧疚是控制儿童的秘密武器。

...nuclear weapons.: 核武器

I attack politicians with the one weapon they don't have, a sense of humor.: 我运用一种政客不具备的武器攻击他们，那就是幽默感。

Sticking pipe has been being a comp 1 icated problem in drilling this area.: 在这个地区打井卡钻一直是个复杂问题.

The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.: 当庭出示的第一件证物是一把刀,据原告称是谋杀凶器.

A hammer can be a lethal weapon.: 铁锤可以是致命的武器.

The new weapon was too inhumane to be used.: 这种新式武器太惨无人道而不宜使用.

The team's secret weapon was their new young defender.: 这个队的秘密武器就是刚来的年轻防守队员.

The guard fan ned him for weapon.: 守卫员搜查他是否身带武器.

This weapon can kill at a range of 200 yards.: 这种兵器在200码内有杀伤力.

At a pinch it can be used as a weapon.: 必要时可以把它当作武器.

This kind of weapon is obsolete.: 这种武器早已过时.

This bird employs its beak as a weapon.: 这种鸟用嘴作武器.

This is the weapon that he used to defend himself withal.: 这就是他用来自卫的武器.

Police frogmen searched the lake for the murder weapon.: 警方的蛙人搜索这个湖，寻找谋杀凶器。

Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.: 究竟什么可称作进攻性武器仍然难以界定。

a long search for the murder weapon: 长时间搜寻杀人凶器

They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal.: 他们已经无耻到把能用的武器都用上了。

I attack politicians with the one weapon they don't have, a sense of humor.: 我运用一种政客不具备的武器攻击他们，那就是幽默感。

Officers combed the woods for the murder weapon.: 警察在树林里四处搜寻凶器。

The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.: 警察以携带攻击性武器为由逮捕了我。

The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon.: 该报告概述了这种新式武器的可能用途。

They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.: 他们疯狂扭打，想把武器抢到手。

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