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shoot (obj) WEAPONFU:tvpast shot HSBt, $SA:tto fire (a bullet or an arrow), or to hit, injure or kill (a person or animal) by firing a bullet from a gun发射（子弹或箭）, 射中，射伤（死）If he's not armed, don't shoot. [I]如果他没带武器，就不要开枪。The kids were shooting arrows at a target. [T]孩子们正在对着靶子射箭。She was shot three times in the head. [T]她的头部被枪击了三次。The dog picked up a rabbit that had been shot. [T]狗叼起一只被射中的兔子。He has a licence to shoot pheasants on the farmer's land. [T]他得到特许在这个农场里打山鸡。Most people can remember what they were doing on the night that Kennedy was shot. [T]大多数人都记得肯尼迪被刺杀的那晚他们在干什么。A policeman was shot dead in the city centre last night. [T + obj + adj]昨晚一名警察在市中心被枪击而死。Only in the most desperate circumstances are the police ordered to shoot on sight. [I]警察只在没有其他办法时才会受命格杀勿论。Troops had been given orders to shoot to kill. [I]军队接到命令开枪射杀。(fig.) He shot questions at me (= He asked me questions) so quickly that I didn't even have time to answer. [T]他连珠炮似地问了我一大串问题，以致我竟然连回答的时间都没有。(infml) If you say that someone should be shot for doing something, you think that their actions are extremely unreasonable.（指行为）极不合理，过分的They should be shot for selling drinks at that price! [T]他们的饮料卖这样的价钱太过分了！If you shoot at someone or something, you try to shoot them by aiming your gun at them and firing.向…射击The police shot at him but he escaped. [I]警察向他射击，但他逃脱了。(Am) If you shoot at/for something, you try to do it.争取做到，以…为目标而努力If you're going to ask for a raise in salary, you might as well shoot for the moon (= ask for the best or the most you could hope for) and ask for a promotion as well.如果你去要求加工资的话，不妨争取一下你所能企盼的最高目标，同时请求晋升。(infml) If you have shot your bolt, you have already achieved all that you have the power, ability or strength to do and can do nothing more.竭尽全力He started off the game well but seemed to have shot his bolt by half-time.他在比赛开始时不错，但在进行到一半时就似乎已智穷才尽了。(Am infml) If you shoot the breeze, you talk with someone or a group of people about unimportant things.随便谈话，闲聊We sat out on the porch until late at night, just shooting the breeze.我们在门廊上坐到深夜，只是在闲聊而已。(Am infml) If you shoot darts at someone, you look at them in a very angry way.愤怒地看着某人He was shooting darts at me in the meeting, so I shut up quick.他在会议上恼怒地看着我，所以我赶紧闭嘴了。If someone shoots down an aircraft, they destroy it or force it out of the sky by shooting it.击落，击下（飞机）He was killed during the war when his plane was shot down.他是在战时因所乘飞机被击落而死去的。(infml) If someone shoots down (in flames) one of your suggestions or ideas, they refuse to accept it without giving it any consideration.断然拒绝，否定（建议，计划）If you shoot a glance at someone, you look at them quickly.瞥一眼She shot him a glance as he entered the room.她在他进屋时瞥了他一眼。(infml) If you shoot yourself in the foot, you unintentionally do something which spoils the situation for you.无意中伤害自己I really shot myself in the foot when I introduced him to my wife, because two months later she left me and went to live with him!我把他介绍给妻子真是害了自己，因为两个月以后她就离开我去和他住在一起了。(taboo slang) If a man or boy shoots his load/(Am also) shoots his wad, he EJACULATES (= sperm comes out through his penis).射精(slang) If you shoot your mouth off, you talk too much in a loud and uncontrolled way.夸夸其谈，吹嘘It's just like Richard to go shooting his mouth off about other people's affairs.理查德就是爱对别人的事情信口开河。If something, such as a piece of writing, is shot through with a particular emotion or quality, that emotion or quality is noticeable all the way through it.以…充满Her novel is shot through with a haunting lyricism.她的小说前后贯穿着一种挥之不去的抒情气氛。The report was shot through with inaccuracies.这篇报导充斥着错误。[SHOOT 中的shoot through](Am infml) If you shoot the works, you use all your money or make the greatest effort you can.全力以赴，不惜一切I emptied my bank account, took out a loan and shot the works on a trip to Mauritius.我取出了全部的银行存款，申请了一项贷款，然后不惜一切的踏上了去毛里求斯的旅途。A shoot-out, esp. in the US, is a fight in which two people or two groups of people shoot at each other with guns.枪战，交火
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