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VERB
(用刀等鋒利物)刺，戳，捅
If someone stabs you, they push a knife or sharp object into your body.
例句
Somebody stabbed him in the stomach...
有人朝他肚子上捅了一刀。
Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver...
迪安試圖用一把改錐捅他。
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VERB
(用手指或手中的尖物)戳，捅
If you stab something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding.
例句
Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber...
貝絲叉起一片黃瓜。
Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for...
戈德斯通翻動(dòng)書頁，大拇指按到他正在尋找的那個(gè)段落上。
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N-SING
嘗試;試圖
If you have a stab at something, you try to do it.
例句
Several tennis stars have had a stab at acting.
好幾位網(wǎng)球明星都嘗試過從事演藝。
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N-SING
(通常指令人不快的感覺的)突發(fā)的一陣
You can refer to a sudden, usually unpleasant feeling as a stab of that feeling.
例句
...a stab of pain just above his eye...
他眼睛上方突然的一陣疼痛
She felt a stab of pity for him.
她突然對(duì)他心生同情。
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PHRASE
背后捅刀子;暗地中傷
If you say that someone has stabbed you in the back, you mean that they have done something very harmful to you when you thought that you could trust them. You can refer to an action of this kind as a stab in the back .
例句
She felt betrayed, as though her daughter had stabbed her in the back...
她感到被出賣了，就像女兒在自己背后捅了一刀似的。
He denounced the defection as a stab in the back.
他譴責(zé)這次背叛是背后捅刀子。