daggers

英 [ˈdægəz]

美 [ˈdægərz]

n.  匕首; 短剑
dagger的复数

柯林斯词典

• 匕首;短剑
  Adaggeris a weapon like a knife with two sharp edges.
• PHRASE 剑拔弩张;势不两立
  If you say that two people areat daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  1. She and her mother were at daggers drawn.
     她和她母亲之间的关系异常紧张。

双语例句

• I didn't expect them to be at daggers drawn over such a trivial thing.
  我没料到他们为这一点小事竟会如此势不两立。
• The leader of the opposition and the prime minister are at daggers drawn over the unemployment issue.
  反对派的领袖和首相在失业问题上势不两立。
• But if we have to repulse them, and the daggers once get drawn among such throngs of people, we are likely to have the place burnt down before nightfall.
  但是如果我们非得挫败他们，等到他们在人群中拔出刀子，我们可能在天黑之前就得焚毁那个地方。
• Paul Wolfowitz, the neoconservative defence expert who succeeded him, replaced them with vicious-looking ornamental daggers from Asia.
  他的继任者、新保守主义国防专家保罗沃尔福威茨（paulwolfowitz），用几把来自亚洲的、看上去颇为凌厉的装饰短剑取代了它们。
• The teeth of these fleet-footed predators are too small to use as daggers for large kill, but the cats have strong jaws that lock around the throat of prey until the victim stops breathing.
  这些敏捷的掠夺者们的牙齿在大型猎物面前就像匕首一样显得太小，但是猫科动物强壮的颚能够环锁住猎物的喉咙直至受害者停止呼吸。
• The world lives at daggers drawn in a cold war.
  世界在冷战中剑拨弩张。
• Jack and Peter have been at daggers drawn for a long time.
  杰克和彼得长期以来不共戴天。
• It is a pair of daggers a main-hand and an off-hand dagger.
  它是一对匕首&一把主手和一把副手匕首。
• The teeth are coming down they look like white daggers wanting to kill me.
  牙齿正在向我们逼近，他们象白色的匕首想要杀死我。
• The museum has collections of everything from Arabian sailing boats to the curved daggers known as khanjars.
  该馆的收藏包括阿拉伯的帆船及波斯坎查弯刀，应有尽有。