zinger
参见：Zinger
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zinger (复数 zingers) (主要用于加拿大、美国)
- (非正式) 高速移动的物体 （尤指丢出来的）
- 2008, Joseph Sutton, (请指定书籍名或刊物名), →ISBN:
- On the first pitch from Kline, Lofton hits a zinger of a single into right field that J.D. Drew picks up on one bounce, and if he makes a good throw he has a chance to throw David Bell out at home plate.
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- The pitcher threw a real zinger and struck him out.
- 投手丢了个很快的[球]，让他三振出局了。
- (非正式) 妙语 （尤指反驳或羞辱人的）
- 近义词： one-liner
- 2007, Larry Groves, Seasons in Time, →ISBN，页号 112:
- I wasn't looking to make friends; there had been too much animosity between us in the past, and maybe the guy had a zinger waiting on me.
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- 2012, Adam Fraser, The Third Space, →ISBN，页号 124:
- You might think it's almost worthwhile calling them and restarting the argument just to get that final zinger in. Why do you think of something good to say when it's too late?
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- 2022年5月14日，David Segal，“An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K.”，出自 The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
- Boris Johnson is the most compelling personality in “Chums.” The shambolic style, the self-deprecating humor, the gift for zingers—it was all there in university, as was the elitist’s ambivalent approach to achievement.
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- (非正式) 令人目瞪口呆的事
- I was still reeling from the zinger of seeing my ex on a date with my best friend.
- 我还没从看到我前任和我最好的朋友约会这件事带来的震惊中缓过来。
- (非正式) 很棒的，很活跃的，很惊人的人或物
- 2006, Olivia Hillis Wimbrow, My Beloved Bohemian, →ISBN，页号 130:
- They'd have to come up with a zinger for their Christmas windows to compete with that competitor's laughing Santa Claus and Stefan had that zinger in his proposal submitted to the President of the company.
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- 2006, Cathy Pickens, Done Gone Wrong, →ISBN:
- Think about all the scientists—and all the microscopes and lab equipment and testing—that may come up with zero instead of a zinger.
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- 刺激性的食物或饮料
- 2013, Paula Harrison, Rescue Princesses #5: The Snow Jewel, →ISBN:
- Here, have a strawberry zinger and don't tell Mom and Dad that we had candy in the bedroom.
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- 2016, Linda Goodnight, The Rain Sparrow, →ISBN:
- “Want some—” he saluted her with one of Julia's delicate white cups and a wry arch of eyebrow, sipped and made a face “—lemon zinger tea?” At times like this she wished she was as outgoing as Nikki or gorgeous like Bailey or even a little wild and easy with men like Valery. But she was none of those things. She was plain Carrie, the librarian, wishing she could say something snappy and clever. “If you don't like lemon zinger, pick a different kind."
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