单词 | nose something ↔ out |
释义 | nose something ↔ outnose something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v informal a) FIND OUTto discover some information that someone else does not want you to discover 打探出,查出〔隐秘〕 The media always manage to nose out some interesting facts about a politician’s past life. 媒体总是能想方设法挖出政客过去生活中的趣闻轶事。 b) to defeat someone by a very small amount in a race, competition etc 以微弱优势取胜 Examples from the Corpus nose out• His nose can smell out a human or a Minpin or any other animal from ten miles away.• The nose probably started out fairly small, like that of, say, the modern tapir.• Breathe in through the nose and out hard through the mouth, both to a slow count of four.• Rumpipumpy nosed Gastronomical out of third.• Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.• The nose, dried out, was pitifully thin and pinched. → nose something ↔ out at nose2(3) |
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