(复同单, 或snipes)
1- a wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight沙锥鸟, 鹬。参见PAINTED SNIPE, SEED-SNIPE.
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- Gallinago and other genera, family Scolopacidae: several species, e.g. the common snipe (G. gallinago).沙锥属及其他属, 鹬科：数种, 如田鹬（拉丁名G. gallinago）。
no obj.
1- shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range（尤指远程准确地）狙击, 打冷枪：
the soldiers in the trench sniped at us.
堑壕中的士兵向我们发动狙击。
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- make a sly or petty verbal attack诽谤：
the state governor constantly sniped at the president
州长经常含沙射影地攻击总统
as noun sniping there has been some sniping about inept leadership.有些流言攻击领导层无能。
派生词
sniper
noun词源
Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Icelandic mrisnípa; obscurely related to Dutch snip and German Schnepfe.