rats

英 [ræts]

美 [ræts]

int.  (表示气恼)该死，可恶
n.  老鼠; 耗子; 讨厌的人; 卑鄙的小人; 骗子
v.  捕鼠; 背叛，告密
rat的第三人称单数和复数

牛津词典

exclamation

• （表示气恼）该死，可恶
  used to show that you are annoyed about sth
  1. Rats! I forgot my glasses.
     该死！我忘了带眼镜。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 老鼠;耗子
  Aratis an animal which has a long tail and looks like a large mouse.
  1. This was demonstrated in a laboratory experiment with rats.
     在实验室用老鼠进行的实验证明了这一点。
  2. ...a rat-infested derelict building.
     鼠灾泛滥的废弃建筑
• N-COUNT 卑劣的人；不忠实的人；小人
  If you call someone arat, you mean that you are angry with them or dislike them, often because they have cheated you or betrayed you.
  1. What did you do with the gun you took from that little rat Turner?
     你是怎么处理从那个叫特纳的小叛徒手里得到的枪的？
• VERB 告密;出卖
  If someonerats onyou, they tell someone in authority about things that you have done, especially bad things.
  1. They were accused of encouraging children to rat on their parents.
     他们被指控唆使儿童告发自己的父母。
• VERB 违约；食言
  If someonerats onan agreement, they do not do what they said they would do.
  1. She claims he ratted on their divorce settlement.
     她声称他违反了他们的离婚协议。
• PHRASE 怀疑有问题；发现不对头；有所警觉
  If yousmell a rat, you begin to suspect or realize that something is wrong in a particular situation, for example that someone is trying to deceive you or harm you.
  1. If I don't send a picture, he will smell a rat...
     如果我不寄出照片，他将有所察觉。
  2. Though Lloyd George's behaviour seemed curious, Haig still did not smell a rat.
     尽管劳埃德·乔治的行为古怪，黑格仍然没有任何怀疑。

双语例句

• And not only mice, but also rats, shrews, frogs and slugs.
  不仅小鼠会，大鼠、鼩鼱、青蛙和蛞蝓都会。
• We realized too late that we were caught like rats in a trap.
  等我们发觉自己已成瓮中之鳖时已经太晚了。
• Objective To observe the effect of neuronal apoptosis after seizures of rats induced by kindling.
  目的观察点燃大鼠痫性发作对神经元凋亡的影响。
• Some of the furniture in this old house has been gnawed away by rats.
  这所老房子里的一些家具已经被老鼠嗑坏了。
• Rats, mice and voles recognise each other by smell.
  耗子、老鼠和野鼠靠嗅觉区分彼此。
• Thus, teenagers become mall rats, hanging out but rarely shopping in those megamalls.
  于是，十几岁的孩子们没事就去逛大商场，在里面到处溜达却很少购物。
• The rats have chewed away some of the woodwork.
  老鼠啃坏了一些木器。
• A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats
  灭鼠花了大力气。
• The researchers also investigated what metabolic changes the high-fat diet was inducing in the rats.
  研究人员还研究了高脂肪饮食诱导大鼠体内发生哪些代谢变化。
• This was demonstrated in a laboratory experiment with rats.
  在实验室用老鼠进行的实验证明了这一点。