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stunt

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stunt1 /stʌnt/ noun [countableC]
1  DANGEROUSa dangerous action that is done to entertain people, especially in a film 〔尤指電影中的〕特技表演，特技
Not many actors do their own stunts.
不是很多演員親自表演特技動作。
a stunt flying show
特技飛行表演
2  ATTENTIONsomething that is done to attract people’s attention, especially in advertising or politics 〔尤指廣告或政治中的〕噱頭，引人注目的花招
Todd flew over the city in a hot-air balloon as a publicity stunt.
作爲一種宣傳噱頭，托德乘坐熱氣球飛越城市上空。
3  pull a stunt DANGEROUSto do something that is silly or that is slightly dangerous 做愚蠢[有點危險]的事
Next time you pull a stunt like that don’t expect me to get you out of trouble.
下次你要再做那樣的蠢事，别指望我幫你解圍。
Examples from the Corpus
pull a stunt• He says he loves his kids, but when he pulls a stunt like this it makes me wonder.
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stunt• Lockiear was the first pilot to do aerial stunts for the movies.• That same year, a minor tragedy occurred during a pre-game stunt.• A goofy stunt for February sweeps?• He also knew the value of goofy legal stunts.• She was more concerned by the attitude of the authorities on both sides of the river, who wanted no more stunts.• The hunger strike is thought to be just another political stunt.• But Moore freely admits he has no stomach for the stunts.• The stunt took two years to perfect, and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second.• The stunt was enacted in the grounds of Longleat House, home of the Marquis of Bath.
do ... stunts• And not just movie actors who can do stunts.
publicity stunt• Unionist politicians accused him of naivety and dismissed the truce as a publicity stunt.• It could be a publicity stunt gone wrong.• It's a publicity stunt to gain sympathy.• Now that times are tougher, such costly publicity stunts are harder to justify.• At his most impressionable, Nicholas allowed himself to be talked into publicity stunts that horribly backfired.• A statement from the heart or a mere publicity stunt?• He overrode negative reviews with publicity stunts.
stunt2 verb [transitiveT]
STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto stop something or someone from growing to their full size or developing properly 抑制，阻礙…的成長[發育]
Lack of sunlight will stunt the plant’s growth.
缺乏陽光會阻礙植物的生長。
Examples from the Corpus
stunt• I refused to fly alone until I knew some stunting.• Slow economic growth stunted corporate profits last quarter.• The Parmenters lived in a stunted frame house at the edge of a brick sidewalk in Georgetown.
From Longman Business Dictionary
stuntstunt /stʌnt/ noun [countableC] disapprovingMARKETING
something that is done to attract people’s attention to a product or company
The companies turned the event into a publicity stunt.
They deliberately created a controversial commercial as a stunt to get free publicity.
Origin stunt1
(1800-1900) Perhaps from stump “something risky which someone has persuaded you to do”
 stunt2
(1600-1700) stunt “rude, stunted” ((16-19 centuries)), probably from a Scandinavian language
stunt1 nounstunt2 verb
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