2.[intransitiveI]JUMP if a bird, an insect, or a small animal hops, it moves by making quick short jumps 〔鸟、昆虫或小动物快速小步〕跳跃
3[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] informalGET ON OR OFF A BUS, PLANE ETC to move somewhere quickly or suddenly 快速或突然去某处
Hop in – I’ll drive you home.
上车吧,我送你回家。
Patrick hopped out of bed and quickly got dressed.
帕特里克跳下床飞快地穿上衣服。
4hop a plane/bus/train etcAmerican EnglishAmE informalGET ON OR OFF A BUS, PLANE ETC to get on a plane, bus, train etc, especially after suddenly deciding to do so 〔尤指突然决定〕跳上飞机/公共汽车/火车等
So we hopped a bus to Phoenix that night.
于是我们当晚便跳上了去凤凰城的公共汽车。
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hop a plane/bus/train etc• He would just hop trains and stuff.• Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.• Receivingassurances that there was no ethnicdimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west.
5.hop it!British EnglishBrE old-fashionedLEAVE A PLACE used to rudely tell someone to go away 走开!滚开!
6.hopping madinformalANGRY very angry 非常生气,暴跳如雷SYN furious
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hopping mad• Bunker had received the message from a convener at one of the Midlands plants, who was also hopping mad.• Christmas dinnerruined and so on - she's hopping mad.• Just as well for him, because she was hopping mad.• No wonder, then, that several institutions are hopping mad.• Trainer Michael O'Leary was also hopping mad.• Well, I've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad!
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hop• He hopped across the ditch to the farther bank and looked round him again.• Mary was hopping anxiously from one foot to another.• It's a game in which you hop around trying to knock the other players over.• Even worse, plasmids can hop between species.• She started to hop from one foot to the other.• A wide-eyed little girlhopped into Santa's lap.• Aunt Margaret's curly, black handwriting skipped and hopped on the paper because Melanie's eyes were so tired.• Instead, anyone at hand hops on to the truck and gets the job done.• Lorna hopped over to a bench to put on her shoes.• There had been barely a break in their conversation as they hopped the rocks.• A little kid in a Catholic school uniform still hops up and down the steps of a stoop on one foot.
hop2 noun [countableC]
1.catch somebody on the hopREADYto do something when someone is not expecting it and is not ready 使某人措手不及
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catch somebody on the hop• Many politicians have been caught on the hop by a good interviewer.• Yes, I think I caught her on the hop.• The dramatic fall in share prices caught even the experts on the hop.• They catch you on the hop.• Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like.• You caught us on the hop there, ol' buddy.
hop• In high amounts hops are such a potentsedative that Clement, working as an herbalist, offers them to dentalpatients.• The bird took another hop toward Kyle's outstretched hand.• The ball got past the shortstop on a bad hop.• It's just a short hop from Cleveland to Detroit.• And some airlines are more affected by flying short hops and in areas where weather is relatively poor.• This is where they dry the hops.