potshot
英 ['pɒtʃɒt]
美['pɑtʃɑt]
- n. 乱射；肆意抨击
- v. 肆意抨击；射击（potshoot的过去分词）
英英释义
- 1. a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)
- 2. criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration;
- "reporters took potshots at the mayor"
实用场景例句
- (figurative)The newspapers took constant potshots at (= criticized) the president.
- 报界经常胡乱批评总统。
牛津词典
- Somebody took a potshot at him as he drove past.
- 他开车通过的时候，有人向他乱开了一枪。
牛津词典
- Two influential economists take a potshot at financial policymakers. Why don't their criticisms add up?
- 两位有名经济学家狠恶报复金融政策拟定者. 而他们的批驳为何不恻隐理?
期刊摘选
- I took a potshot at the rabbit, but missed.
- 我向兔子胡乱打了一枪, 但是没有射中.
期刊摘选
- Somebody took a potshot at him as he drove past.
- 他开车通过的时候，有人向他乱开了一枪。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
中文词源
potshot 乱射一气
pot,罐子，shot,射。比喻用法，只要射中猎物有肉吃就行，而不考虑射击的风度和技巧。
双语例句
- 1. Somebody took a potshot at him as he drove past.
- 他开车通过的时候，有人向他乱开了一枪。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. I took a potshot at the rabbit, but missed.
- 我向兔子胡乱打了一枪, 但是没有射中.
来自互联网
- 3. Two influential economists take a potshot at financial policymakers. Why don't their criticisms add up?
- 两位有名经济学家狠恶报复金融政策拟定者. 而他们的批驳为何不恻隐理?
来自互联网
英文词源
- potshot
- potshot: [19] A potshot was originally a shot taken at an animal or bird simply in order to kill it for food – in order to get it into the ‘pot’, in other words – rather than in accordance with the strict code and precise techniques of shooting as a ‘sport’. Indeed to begin with it was distinctly a contemptuous term among the hunting and shooting fraternity. But gradually it broadened out in meaning to any ‘casually aimed shot’.
- potshot (n.)
- also pot-shot, 1836, "shot taken at animal simply to 'get it in the pot,' not for sport or marksmanship;" from pot (n.1) + shot (n.). Extended sense of "opportunistic criticism" first recorded 1926. Compare pot-hunter "one who shoots whatever he finds; one who kills for food not for sport."
词态变化
复数: potshots;第三人称单数: potshots;过去式: potshotted;过去分词: potshotted;现在分词: potshotting;