brandish

英 [ˈbrændɪʃ]

美 [ˈbrændɪʃ]

v.  挑衅地挥舞，激动地挥舞(尤指武器)

现在分词：brandishing　过去式：brandished　第三人称单数：brandishes　过去分词：brandished　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14173 / COCA.13627

牛津词典

verb

• 挑衅地挥舞，激动地挥舞（尤指武器）
  to hold or wave sth, especially a weapon, in an aggressive or excited way

柯林斯词典

• VERB (威胁地）挥舞（尤指武器）
  If youbrandishsomething, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
  1. He appeared in the lounge brandishing a knife.
     他挥舞着一把小刀，出现在休息室里。

英英释义

noun

• the act of waving
  Synonym:flourish

verb

• move or swing back and forth
  1. She waved her gun
  Synonym:flourishwave
• exhibit aggressively
  1. brandish a sword

双语例句

• Still, I wanted to know where in my home, office and wider world I should most forcefully brandish my disinfectant wipes and hand-sanitizer.
  不过，我希望知道我的家里、办公室和更广阔的世界里，有哪些地方我需要大力使用消毒纸巾和洗手液。
• Future, clean out treasure to will be Ma Yun this one new promise and to global market brandish Shi Ting is entered.
  未来，淘宝将为马云这一新的诺言而向全球市场挥师挺进。
• And we must brandish the sword.
  我们必须挥舞手里的剑。
• Scholar Wu Jiaxiang uses the Chinese expression, which literally means baring fangs and brandish paws, to describe the image.
  学者吴稼祥用中国成语张牙舞爪来形容这条龙的形象。
• By all means, brandish your achievements, but let your interviewer know what that meant for the team and/ or the company.
  展示自己的成果当然可以，但要让你的面试官知道这些成果给团队或者整个公司有什么意义。
• When he met with a Journal reporter, he quickly posed for photographs with hired security guards, who declined his request to brandish their guns for the picture& liability concerns, they said.
  当他与《华尔街日报》记者会面时，他很快摆好姿势要跟警卫合影，还让警卫举起枪来。不过考虑到职责在身，警卫拒绝了陈的请求。
• To stop the run on Italian sovereign debt, policymakers need to brandish much bigger weapons than what they have yet come close to mobilising.
  要阻止意大利主权债务遭到抛售，政策制定者需要拿出远比他们即将动用的更大型的武器。
• I have seen this whole body of horse, upon a word of command, draw their swords at once, and brandish them in the air.
  我曾见过一整队这样的骑兵，一声令下，同时抽出剑来在空中挥舞。
• To start with, they considered and discussed Brandish, rising young lawyer, and Fulton, rising young dentist.
  他们首先把两个人提上了议事日程，他们是正在崛起的年轻律师布雷迪什和年轻牙医福尔顿。
• The more immediate challenge for Apple, meanwhile, will be to convince its existing loyal customers that there are enough good reasons to brandish a computer on their wrists, even one bearing the stylish hallmark of Apple design studios.
  与此同时，苹果面临的更紧迫挑战是，如何说服现有的忠实客户相信一点：他们能找到充分的理由向别人炫耀戴在他们手腕上的计算机，即便上面带有苹果设计工作室的时尚标识。