daggers

英 [ˈdægəz]

美 [ˈdægərz]

n.  匕首; 短剑
dagger的复数

柯林斯词典

• 匕首;短剑
  Adaggeris a weapon like a knife with two sharp edges.
• PHRASE 剑拔弩张;势不两立
  If you say that two people areat daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  1. She and her mother were at daggers drawn.
     她和她母亲之间的关系异常紧张。

双语例句

• She left the room, looking daggers at me.
  她以短剑相刺的目光望着我，走出了房间。
• It is a pair of daggers a main-hand and an off-hand dagger.
  它是一对匕首&一把主手和一把副手匕首。
• But if we have to repulse them, and the daggers once get drawn among such throngs of people, we are likely to have the place burnt down before nightfall.
  但是如果我们非得挫败他们，等到他们在人群中拔出刀子，我们可能在天黑之前就得焚毁那个地方。
• The world lives at daggers drawn in a cold war.
  世界在冷战中剑拨弩张。
• The leader of the opposition and the prime minister are at daggers drawn over the unemployment issue.
  反对派的领袖和首相在失业问题上势不两立。
• Israel's insecurity was so pervasive that even words were daggers.
  以色列感到到处都有危险，甚至纸面上的文字也是刀枪林立。
• The teeth are coming down they look like white daggers wanting to kill me.
  牙齿正在向我们逼近，他们象白色的匕首想要杀死我。
• They usually ascend by using the daggers they plunge in people's backsides as rappelling instruments.
  他们常常通过把匕首插入别人的背后作为拉人下水的工具来实现自己的往上爬。
• The museum has collections of everything from Arabian sailing boats to the curved daggers known as khanjars.
  该馆的收藏包括阿拉伯的帆船及波斯坎查弯刀，应有尽有。
• I didn't expect them to be at daggers drawn over such a trivial thing.
  我没料到他们为这一点小事竟会如此势不两立。