1. 眼淚;淚水;淚珠 Tears are the drops of salty liquid that come out of your eyes when you are crying.
e.g. Her eyes filled with tears... 她雙眼噙滿(mǎn)淚水。 e.g. I just broke down and wept with tears of joy... 我一下子禁不住喜極而泣。
2. 哭泣 You can use tears in expressions such as in tears ,burst into tears, and close to tears to indicate that someone is crying or is almost crying.
e.g. He was in floods of tears on the phone... 他在電話(huà)里失聲痛哭。 e.g. She burst into tears and ran from the kitchen... 她突然哭了,跑出了廚房。
3. see also: crocodile tears;sweat;and tears blood -> see blood
損壞或移動(dòng)(DAMAGING OR MOVING)
1. 撕開(kāi);扯壞;扯破 If you tear paper, cloth, or another material, or if it tears, you pull it into two pieces or you pull it so that a hole appears in it.
e.g. She very nearly tore my overcoat... 她差點(diǎn)把我的大衣扯破了。 e.g. Mary Ann tore the edge off her napkin... 瑪麗·安撕掉了餐巾的邊兒。
2. (紙、布等的)破洞,窟窿 A tear in paper, cloth, or another material is a hole that has been made in it.
e.g. I peered through a tear in the van's curtains. 我通過(guò)篷車(chē)簾子的破洞窺視。
3. 撕裂,撕開(kāi),劃破(皮肉) If something tears your flesh or skin, it cuts it badly.
e.g. Canine teeth are for piercing and killing prey, and tearing flesh... 犬齒用來(lái)咬穿、咬死獵物,還可以撕肉。 e.g. He had stumbled down and torn the skin from his knees. 他絆倒在地,膝蓋上蹭破了皮。
4. (使)(肌肉、韌帶)拉傷,撕裂 If you tear one of your muscles or ligaments, or if it tears, you injure it by accidentally moving it in the wrong way.
e.g. He tore a muscle in his right thigh... 他右大腿的一塊肌肉拉傷了。 e.g. If the muscle is stretched again it could even tear. 這塊肌肉要是再拉伸的話(huà),甚至可能會(huì )撕裂。
5. 撕掉;扯去;拔掉 To tear something from somewhere means to remove it roughly and violently.
e.g. She tore the windscreen wipers from his car... 她猛地扯掉他車(chē)上的雨刷。 e.g. He tore down the girl's photograph, and crumpled it into a ball. 他一把扯下那女孩的照片,將它揉成一團。
6. (人、動(dòng)物)撕扯,撕咬 If a person or animal tears at something, they pull it violently and try to break it into pieces.
e.g. Female fans fought their way past bodyguards and tore at his clothes. 女粉絲沖破保安的阻攔,撕扯他的衣裳。
7. (常指失控或危險地)奔,沖,闖 If you tear somewhere, you move there very quickly, often in an uncontrolled or dangerous way.
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e.g. The door flew open and Miranda tore into the room... 門(mén)猛地開(kāi)了,米蘭達闖進(jìn)房間。 e.g. Without looking to left or to right, he tore off down the road. 他也不朝兩邊看,就在路上開(kāi)始狂奔。
8. 使飽經(jīng)創(chuàng )傷;使經(jīng)受磨難 If you say that a place is torn by particular events, you mean that unpleasant events which cause suffering and division among people are happening there.
e.g. ...a country that has been torn by civil war and foreign invasion since its independence. 自獨立以來(lái)就飽受內戰和外敵入侵之苦的國家
-torn ...the riot-torn areas of Los Angeles. 洛杉磯騷亂頻發(fā)的地區
9. see also: torn;wear and tear. to tear a strip off -> see strip to tear someone to pieces -> see piece to tear someone to shreds -> see shred
相關(guān)詞組:tear aparttear awaytear downtear intotear offtear up
tear英英釋義
tear的反義詞
noun
1. the act of tearing
e.g. he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear
2. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
e.g. they went on a bust that lasted three days
Synonym: bustbingebout
3. a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
e.g. his story brought tears to her eyes
Synonym: teardrop
4. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
e.g. there was a rip in his pants she had snags in her stockings
Synonym: riprentsnagsplit
verb
1. fill with tears or shed tears
e.g. Her eyes were tearing
2. strip of feathers
e.g. pull a chicken pluck the capon
Synonym: pluckpulldeplumedeplumatedisplume
3. to separate or be separated by force
e.g. planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars
4. separate or cause to separate abruptly
e.g. The rope snapped tear the paper
Synonym: rupturesnapbust
5. move quickly and violently
e.g. The car tore down the street He came charging into my office