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VERB
揮起（棍棒等）擊打
If you swipe at a person or thing, you try to hit them with a stick or other object, making a swinging movement with your arm.
例句
She swiped at Rusty as though he was a fly...
她打拉斯蒂就像在打一只蒼蠅。
He swiped me across the shoulder with the poker.
他用撥火棍打我的肩膀。
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VERB
偷竊
If you swipe something, you steal it quickly.
例句
Five soldiers were each fined ￡140 for swiping a wheelchair from a disabled tourist...
5 名士兵因偷竊一名殘疾人游客的輪椅而每人被罰款 140 英鎊。
Everywhere I went, people kept trying to swipe my copy of The New York Times.
無論我走到哪兒，總有人想要順走我的那份《紐約時報》。
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N-COUNT
(通常指間接的)批評,抨擊
If you take a swipe at a person or an organization, you criticize them, usually in an indirect way.
例句
Genesis recorded a song which took a swipe at greedy property developers who bought up and demolished people's homes...
吉妮西絲錄制了一首歌來抨擊那些買下并毀壞人們家園的貪婪的房地產開發商。
In a swipe at the president, he called for an end to 'begging for aid around the world'.
在對總統含沙射影的批評中，他呼吁停止“滿世界乞求援助”。
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VERB
刷(信用卡等)
If you swipe a credit card or swipe card through a machine, you pass it through a narrow space in the machine so that the machine can read information on the card's magnetic strip.
例句
Swipe your card through the phone, then dial.
在電話機上刷卡，然后撥號。