英语词源
- rat-tail (n.)
- also rat's-tail, used since 16c. of conditions or devices held to resemble a rat's long, hairless tail in some sense, including "lank lock of hair" (1810); "end of a rope" (1867); from rat (n.) + tail (n.1).
权威例句
- 1. If I don't send a picture, he will smell a rat.
- 如果我不寄出照片，他将有所察觉。
- 2. They were accused of encouraging children to rat on their parents.
- 他们被指控唆使儿童告发自己的父母。
- 3. Captain Hardnose certainly ran that rat over the hill.
- 哈得诺思上尉当然要求那个告密者离职了.
- 4. The lab assistant injected the rat with the new drug.
- 实验室助手给老鼠注射了那种新药.
- 5. He was wet all over like a drowned rat.
- 他浑身湿得像只落汤鸡.