He raised his voice and stabbed the air with his pen.
他提高嗓门,并用钢笔在空中比画。
3.stab somebody in the backBETRAYto do something that harms someone who likes and trusts you 背后中伤某人;背叛某人SYN betray
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stab somebody in the back• I see, you criticize my appearance, and then you stab me in the back!• Some one reached through an open window and stabbed Bastidas in the back.• Thatcher was stabbed in the back by her former friends and colleagues in the Conservative Party.• Why stab Manchester in the back for helping to create a bigger northernnetwork of clubs, raves and fashionoutlets?• He seems friendly, but he wouldn't hesitate to stab you in the back if he thought it would help him get your job.
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stab• Betty Carroll was stabbed 61 times and left to die on the floor of her Escondido home.• Her assailantlunged, stabbing at her again and again.• Tracy Barrett, 20, stabbed black magicfollower Ian Clark, 59, several times with six steak knives.• He had been stabbed fourteen times.• Luca stabbed her in the thigh with a breadknife.• There was a scuffle and Murray was stabbed in the chest.• Meyers was stabbed once in the abdomen and once in the neck.• Gail's stabbedoutside a nightclub..• Maria was stabbed seven-teen times and died that night.• The victim had been stabbed six times.• He stabbed the brake, stabbed too hard, and his back wheelsslurred in the dirt.• Half a block away, a woman is raped and stabbed to deathbehind an abandonedchurch.• Kitty Davison was found stabbed to death one night in 1997.
stabbed to death• He'd been stabbed to death.• The two Leeds supporters were believed to have been stabbed to death after an argument with workmen.• In 1839 JohnRidgeSenior, a Cherokee, was stabbed to death before the eyes of his twelve-year-old son.• Half a block away, a woman is raped and stabbed to death behind an abandoned church.• Major's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid.• Two men were stabbed to death during the riot.• He got out his knife but stabbed to death his brother, who was attempting to restrain him.• Poolroommurder: Man stabbed to death in hotelfight.• Murray Pugh, a trainee P-E teacher, was stabbed to death last weekend.
stab2 noun [countableC]
1HARM/BE BAD FORan act of stabbing or trying to stab someone with a knife 刺,戳,捅
severe stab wounds
严重的刺伤
a stab victim
一个被刀捅了的人
He killed him with a stab to the heart.
他一刀刺中他心脏把他杀死了。
2stab of pain/disappointment/fear etcFEEL HAPPY/FRIGHTENED/BORED ETCa suddensharp feeling of pain or a strong emotion 一阵痛苦/失望/恐惧等
He felt a stab of guilt.
他感到一阵愧疚。
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stab of pain/disappointment/fear etc• Supposing, he thought, with a stab of fear, he was never going to have any friends?• Instinctively he rolled in the saddle and felt the white-hotstab of pain as something sharp scored a line across his shoulders.• She stretched, and little stabs of pain shot through her.• I felt a sharp stab of disappointment and was surprised and angry at myself.• The policeman pinched his eyes as if overcome with a sudden stab of pain.• I bit my arm and was grateful for the stab of pain, for the resistance of the bone beneath the skin.• As Granthurried down the narrowconcretestairs, he felt the first warningstab of pain in his torn thighmuscle.
3stab at (doing) somethinginformalTRY TO DO OR GET something an attempt to do something, often not successfully 试图[尝试](做)某事
have/make/take a stab at (doing) something
I’ll have one more stab at it.
我要再试一次。
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stab at (doing) something• I knew the day and the month and made a stab at the year.• There have been several other attempts with the Department of Defense that took a stab at a new vehicle.• Of course, she thought with a stab atrealism, all this could apply to anyone.• But the extremesuffering of women and their children stabbed at my heart.• A few years earlier, the Sellersshops had taken some early stabs at the problem.• He stabbed at it with his talons and beak.• But this last little stab atoptimism soon comes to naught.• But there was an interestingsequel, which gave him his first, insightful, small stab atdirecting.
4.stab in the backBETRAYwhen someone you thought was a friend tries to harm you 背后中伤;背叛
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stab in the back• Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end.• MacQuillan had been stabbed in the back, there were no palm or fingerprints on the weapon.• It's so many stabs in the back ... It's the whole system which is tucking us up.• I was stabbed in the back because I don't have those problems with Steve.