shoo-in
英 [ˈʃuː.ɪn]
美 [ˈʃuː.ɪn]
- n. 长胜将军；十拿九稳的必胜者
英语词源
- shoo-in (n.)
- "easy winner" (especially in politics), 1939, from earlier sense "horse that wins a race by pre-arrangement" (1928); the verb phrase shoo in in this sense is from 1908; from shoo (v.) + in (adv.).
权威例句
- 1. Shoo, bird, shoo.
- 嘘！小鸟，嘘！
- 2. You'd better shoo him away.
- 你最好把他赶走。
- 3. He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.
- 他折了一根柳树枝来驱赶苍蝇.
- 4. Shoo those birds away, they're eating my garden seeds!
- 嘘跑那些鸟, 它们在花园里吃种子呢!
- 5. Vernon Dersley : Shoo! Go on.
- 弗农·德思礼: 快滚.