snook

英 [snuːk]

美 [snuːk]

网络  斯诺克; 努克; 军曹鱼; 锯盖鱼; 史努克

过去式：snook　

BNC.41529

习惯用语

n.

cock a snook at sb/sth
• （说话或做事）明显地表示蔑视；轻蔑；不屑一顾
  to say or do sth that clearly shows you do not respect sb/sth
• to cock a snook at authority
  蔑视权威

英英释义

noun

• large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters

双语例句

• He could seldom resist an opportunity to cock a snook at traditional English life.
  他从来不放过对传统的英国式生活表示轻蔑的机会。
• Snook and police believe Riddell assumed the identity of attorney Jeffrey A.Riddell after he had left the country and deactivated his law license with the state.
  斯努克与警方坚信，在那位名叫杰弗里·A·里德尔的律师离开美国并注销了其在宾夕法尼亚州的律师执照后，骗子里德尔便开始盗用这为律师的身份。
• Poor and bored, they think it's a bit of a laugh to cock a snook at the cops, and at the "rich people" who own businesses.
  穷人和一些对社会感到厌烦的人们对警察和那些经营自己业务的“富人”嗤之以鼻以及不屑一顾是有点可笑的。
• Snook are object-oriented as well, and are ambushing predators.
  斯努克，以及是物件导向的并被埋伏的犯罪分子。
• He's called snook, and he lives in a village of that ilk.
  他叫斯努克，住在斯努克村。
• The boy cocked a snook at the policemen's back after being scolded.
  那男孩在被训斥之后在警察背后做蔑视的手势。
• Snook's suspicions started when he got a letter from Riddell on behalf of a defendant in a drug case in March.
  检察官斯努克对于里德尔真实身份的怀疑始于今年3月份，当时里德正为一桩毒品案件中的一名被告做代理律师，并且写了一封信给斯努克。
• Amelia took regular flying lessons from her instructor NETA snook.
  她的指导老师耐塔。斯努克给她上常规的飞行课。
• It's been two hundred years since an Indian cocked a snook at the British Empire and got away with it.
  两百年来能如此藐视大英帝国而且平安无事的印度人就只有你而已。
• Tories cocked a snook at their prime minister over this legislation.
  保守党人就这一法规向他们的首相表示了轻蔑。