英语词汇“scatter、gun”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

scatter-gun

释义

ˈscatter-gun orig. and chiefly N. Amer.
[f. scatter v. + gun n.]
1. A shot-gun.
1836H. R. Howard Hist. V. A. Stewart 140, I have a choice scatter-gun.187.G. H. Kingsley Sport & Travel v. (1900) 142, I take up my scattergun and wander away.1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 237 A ‘double-pronged scatter gun’.1910Blackw. Mag. Feb. 285/1 All round Muttra shooting with a scatter-gun is varied and good.1923J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier i. 4 Pigeon shooting was good..for anyone who owned or could borrow a ‘scatter-gun’.1932‘D. Yates’ Safe Custody ix. 198 We've thirteen men, and between us we've got six pistols and three scatter-guns.1968Punch 1 May 624/1 He hands his trunk to this Puerto Rican who's carrying..a sawn-off scatter-gun.1973R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led i. iv. 51 Once in a while one of us would pack a scatter gun and get a brace or two of prairie chicken.
2. fig. (attrib. in quots.). Cf. scattershot s.v. scatter v. 7.
1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden ii. xiv. 150 A scattergun method for dealing with unpleasant facts.1963Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Feb., Republicans agreed..to a ‘scattergun plan’. Each representative wrote the name of his choice..on a secret ballot. There were no nominations and no debate.1974Publishers Weekly 4 Feb. 70/1 Farson sets it all down with a scattergun assertiveness that inevitably turns up contradictions.1980Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 913/1 Stuart Holland's scatter-gun polemic embodies many of the misconceptions which now threaten to dominate the Labour Party's attitude to Europe.
Hence as v. intr. (fig. in quot.) and ˈscatter-gunner.
1968R. M. Nixon in W. Safire Before the Fall (1975) i. vi. 72 If we scatter-gun too much we are not going to have an impact.1969Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Nov. 20/1 Two traps will be in operation and all scattergunners are invited to compete.1980Outdoor Life (U.S.) (Northeast ed.) Oct. 104/2 Scatter-gunners bag approximately 50 million of them each hunting season.

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