2[transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]REMOVE to remove something quickly and violently, using your hands 猛力扯去
rip something out/off/away/down
Gilly ripped out a sheet of paper from her notebook.
吉莉从她的笔记本上撕下一页纸。
The buttons had been ripped off.
纽扣被扯掉了。
3rip something/somebody to shreds
a)TEARto destroy something or damage it badly by tearing it in many places 把某物撕得粉碎
Jill’s kitten is ripping her sofa to shreds.
吉尔的小猫在把她的沙发抓得稀烂。
b)CRITICIZE informal to strongly criticize someone, or criticize their opinions, remarks, behaviour etc 严厉批评某人;抨击某人的观点[言论,行为等]
I expected to have my argument ripped to shreds.
我等着别人来批驳我的论点。
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rip something/somebody to shreds• Unexpectedhailstorms have ripped crops to shreds.• And the politicians, thankgoodness, have only so much money with which to rip each other to shreds.• Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.• Other than the chance to rip it to shreds.• Carson ripped him to shreds in his monologue.
4.[transitiveT] to copy music from a CD to an MP3 player or computer 抓取〔音轨〕
5let ripinformalVIOLENTEMOTIONAL to speak or behave violently or emotionally 激动地说;做出激烈的举动
Fran took a slow deep breath, then let rip, yelling and shouting at him.
弗兰慢慢地深吸了一口气,然后发起威来,冲着他又喊又叫。
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let rip• And, quite frankly, I just let rip.• But Lord McNally, a LiberalDemocrat, was able to let rip.• Encouraged, and not noticing in his excitement the look of horror on his Rachel's face, Alfred let rip.• He had carte blanche to let rip.• In the end, the market is let rip.• Out on the motorway he let rip.• Harriet finally let rip with 20 years of storedresentment.• And picture the scene when a bunch of the boys let rip with the ToreadorSong from Carmen.
6let it/her ripinformal to make a car, boat etc go as fast as it can 让〔车、船等〕全速前进
Put your foot on the gas and let her rip!
踩油门,让它全速前进!
PHRASAL VERBS
7rip something ↔ apartphrasal verbphr vto tear or pull something to pieces 撕裂,撕碎
He was ripped apart by savage beasts in the forest.
他被森林里的猛兽撕得粉碎。
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rip apart• She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.• The coyotes and jungle cats in the area rip their prey apart and devour it.• They had to keep ripping the knee-caps apart and rebuilding them.• A pair of incandescentexplosionsripped the metal apart, and the door was knockedspinning into the cave.• It was also the mortalenemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mightytalons.• She was chewing savagely on something, making nasalsnarling sounds as she ripped the thing apart with her sharpteeth.
8rip somebody/something ↔ offphrasal verbphr v informal
a)BBTEXPENSIVEto charge someone too much money for something 敲…竹杠SYN overcharge
rip off• Dealers may like people to take E, but this doesn't stop them ripping the users off.• It occurred to Hicks that there would be absolutely nothing dishonorable in ripping him off.• Most men I know would be ripping my clothes off by now.• I felt him rip the tape off my hands, but he kept my left arm in a hammerlock.• When you rip the cloth off the umbrella, is the umbrella still an umbrella?• The husband tried to seize a portrait of her, an oilpainting, rip it right off the wall.• I crushed up the cockroach in my clothes and practically ripped my blouse off, there in open sunlight.• But the waves surging across the raft had ripped the lids off three of the four tubs.
n9.rip on somebody/somethingphrasal verbphr vAmerican EnglishAmE informalto complain a lot about someone or something
10rip through somethingphrasal verbphr vDESTROYto move through a place quickly and with violent force 迅猛地冲过
A wave of bombings ripped through the capital’s business district.
首都商业区遭到一连串爆炸袭击。
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rip through • Twelve people died after a bombripped through a busyundergroundpassage at Moscow's Pushkin Square during the rush-hour last week.• Five tornadoesbattered Pinellas Park, an area near St Petersburg, ripping throughcaravan parks where many elderly people live.• He ripped through four of the files quickly.• He drove the bladeupwards with one powerfulthrust, feeling it punctureskin, rip throughmuscle and crash into teeth.• Jack MacFarland privately influenced my course of study at Loyola, and death once again ripped through our small family.• Twenty shotsrang out, 11 ripping through Tatum.• The windripped through the room in which we stood.• Quins had started in top gear with Will Carling ripping through the Rugbymidfield for the opening try.
rip up• If it is enemy food, the leaderrips it up.• Or he would start to do it and then get frustrated and throw his pencil down and rip his paper up.• When Brown built a plank road from his hotel to the Falls, Forsyth ripped it up.• But they have all that data, and as soon as they rip the page up and there you go.• I got my Chelsea ticket through the post and had to be restrained from ripping it up by my girlfriend.• Duvall saw that his shirt was ripped half way up his back.• I want to rip them up, stamp on them, throw them out the window.• It may rip itself up with ethnicconflicts.
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rip• We both fell and I heard his shirtrip.• Tom heard his shorts rip as he climbed over the gate.• My zipper was stuck, and the material around it ripped as I pulled on it.• The hornets' nest was ripped from the branch as the strip passed by.• If you feel like writing a scathing letter and then ripping it into little pieces, do it!• He wanted to rip it out of the wall.• Stop pulling my dress! You'll rip it!• One summer she frizzed her hair and took to wearing designerrippedleans.• I ripped my skirt on a broken chair.• The impact caused my fistfuls of weed to rip off the rock with a sickening, slimy, ripping sound.• Beth excitedly ripped open the package.• You can see where the label has been ripped out.• Sometimes it thickened and pulsed with blood and felt like it was going to rip something.• Athelstan carefully ripped the canvas open with the small knife he always carried.• He grabbed his daughter's long sleeve, but she jerked away, ripping the flower-embroidered linen, towards the other table.
ripped ... open• The attorney showed the raptjury a blown-up photograph of the van, whose passenger side had been ripped open.• Then she held her breath and ripped it open.• Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray.• They pierced the fabric of our universe; like a gunshot that ripped open the whole of space and time.• As he cut she gave an almightypush and ripped open to her behind.• Athelstan carefully ripped the canvas open with the small knife he always carried.• But the road was unscarred; no armytrucks had ripped the dirt open with their giantwheels.
rip2 noun [countableC]
1TEARa long tear or cut 长的裂口[裂缝]
a green leather jacket with a rip in the sleeve
袖子有一条长口子的绿色皮夹克
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rip• Anne's jacket has a rip in it.• Gives it a smash, gives it a rip.• A rip in a repair worker's protectivesuit increases the risk of getting a shock as they work on the electricity lines.• His hands were scratched and dusty and there were small rips in his sweater.• The rips in the boat's old sails had been patched again and again.