| 单词 | skewer |
| 释义 | skewerUtensils skew·er1 /ˈskjuːə $ -ər/ noun [countableC] DFUa long metal or wooden stick that is put through pieces of meat to hold them together while they are cooked 〔金属或木质的〕串肉扦，烤肉扦 Examples from the Corpus skewer• Steam 8 minutes, or until a skewer easily slips in and out of the thickest part of the fish.• Pierce grapes with a skewer or needle to allow them to absorb rum.• Place one cake on a serving plate, spike all over with a skewer and lace with half the kirsch.• Thread the fruit on to 8 small skewers.• Order the beef teriyaki skewers or lobster chao on sugar cane sticks.• Cut the sausages in half through the middle and push each half on the end of a wooden skewer. Cooking skewer2 verb [transitiveT] 1. DFCHOLEto make a hole through a piece of food, an object etc with a skewer or with some other pointed object 〔用烤肉扦或类似东西〕把…串起来 2 to criticize someone very strongly, often in a way that other people find humorous 讽刺，讥讽 Du Bois skewered Washington’s policies in his book, ‘The Souls of Black Folks’. 杜波伊斯在他《黑人的灵魂》一书中讽刺了美国政府的政策。 Examples from the Corpus skewer• And every time I open the curtains, my conscience is skewered.• This piece of wood passes right through Turnbull, so that he is skewered.• If you skewered a Huey on a sharp stump during an assault, it was pilot error.• How she would have skewered all this passing fuss with her incisive wit!• Embedded in the wood, it momentarily skewered him to the window-frame.• All filmmakers that have done that have gotten skewered over and over and over.• Simon skewers the Rolling Stones in their old age in her song, "The Reason."• They nibbled chunks of Cheddar cheese skewered with toothpicks.• This is a good thing because, even if you could, further impacts might well drive them inwards, skewering your lungs. (1400-1500) Perhaps from skiver “skewer” ((15-19 centuries)) |
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