stabs

英 [stæbz]

美 [stæbz]

v.  (用刀等锐器)刺，戳，捅; (用手指或尖物)戳，刺
n.  刺; 戳; 捅; 刺(或戳、捅)的伤口; 突然一阵剧痛(或难受的感觉); 尝试; 企图
stab的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (用刀等锋利物)刺，戳，捅
  If someonestabsyou, they push a knife or sharp object into your body.
  1. Somebody stabbed him in the stomach...
     有人朝他肚子上捅了一刀。
  2. Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver...
     迪安试图用一把改锥捅他。
  3. Stephen was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack nearly five months ago.
     斯蒂芬在近 5 个月前无故遭到袭击，被捅死了。
• VERB (用手指或手中的尖物)戳，捅
  If youstabsomething orstab atit, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding.
  1. Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber...
     贝丝叉起一片黄瓜。
  2. Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for...
     戈德斯通翻动书页，大拇指按到他正在寻找的那个段落上。
  3. He stabbed at the omelette with his fork.
     他用叉子戳着煎蛋。
• N-SING 尝试;试图
  If you havea stab atsomething, you try to do it.
  1. Several tennis stars have had a stab at acting.
     好几位网球明星都尝试过从事演艺。
• N-SING (通常指令人不快的感觉的)突发的一阵
  You can refer to a sudden, usually unpleasant feeling asa stab ofthat feeling.
  1. ...a stab of pain just above his eye...
     他眼睛上方突然的一阵疼痛
  2. She felt a stab of pity for him.
     她突然对他心生同情。
• PHRASE 背后捅刀子;暗地中伤
  If you say that someonehas stabbedyouin the back, you mean that they have done something very harmful to you when you thought that you could trust them. You can refer to an action of this kind asa stab in the back.
  1. She felt betrayed, as though her daughter had stabbed her in the back...
     她感到被出卖了，就像女儿在自己背后捅了一刀似的。
  2. He denounced the defection as a stab in the back.
     他谴责这次背叛是背后捅刀子。
• a stab in the dark→ see:dark

双语例句

• And they were more slashes than stabs.
  与其说是刺，还不如说是砍。
• Whether you're working a cocktail party or a comedy club, certain tactics will ensure that your stabs at humor aren't met with blank stares.
  无论你是在鸡尾酒会上还是在喜剧俱乐部里工作，你都需要一些策略来保证当你偶尔幽默一把时大家不会面面相觑。
• The European Commission's latest stabs at regulation take a more pragmatic approach.
  欧盟委员会（EuropeanCommission）最近起草了更为务实的监管政策。
• He stabs at his scallops, pushing the accompanying spinach to one side as irrelevant.
  他用叉子叉着干贝吃，把里面不爱吃的菠菜拨到一边。
• She stabs the undead and the teams get to fighting. The student is believed to have been shot during a scuffle after a cannister of tear gas was discharged.
  她插了那亡灵一刀，然后两队陷入了群殴。这个学生是在群殴中，有人投掷了催泪罐后被枪打伤的。
• After taking off the ring, there seems to be a brief lasting effect, and the hobbit hears the spider say, It stings! It stings! as he stabs it.
  拿下戒指之后，似乎有短暂的持续效果，然后霍比特人在刺戳蜘蛛的时候听到了它说，它在刺我！
• Mr Huckabee stabs this weak spot with a smile.
  哈克比先生用一个微笑刺穿了这个缺点。
• A true friend stabs you in the front.
  真朋友才会当面中伤你。
• He stabs open the bags with a shovel like he's opening an enemy with a bayonet.
  他用铲子捅破地膜，就像用刺刀给敌人破膛。
• But at the conclusion of Season Two, he fatally stabs his former partner and best friend since high school.
  但当第二季结束时，他刺死了前搭档兼高中以来的挚友。