Rat

(noun.) any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.

(noun.) a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure.

(verb.) catch rats, especially with dogs.

(verb.) give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat.

(verb.) employ scabs or strike breakers in.

(verb.) desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage.

珍妮特编辑

• Leave this island before nightfall, or, by heaven, I will have you drowned like the rat you are! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They were so placed that when a rat passed over them the fore feet on the one plate and the hind feet on the other completed the circuit and the rat departed this life, electrocuted. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Well, now, let us see where this rat has been lurking. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• What about the other fortnight that you've left me lying here, like a sick rat in his hole? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Look at the rat! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And yet he was somewhere indomitable and separate, like a quick, vital rat. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The rat-faced one now called to the men who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The rats will devour the mixture and then drink, whereupon the plaster, brought into contact with the water, will become solid and like a stone in their stomachs, which will cause their deaths. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Can rats walk down stairs, and come walking through the entry, and open a door when you've locked it and set a chair against it? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Killing rats was I? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Mr. Pitt had very nearly made him; but he ratted always at the wrong time. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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