| 词汇 | scotched |
| 释义 | scotched past simple and past participle ofscotch scotch verb[ T ] formaluk /skɒtʃ/ us /skɑːtʃ/ to prevent something from being believed or being done: 破除；制止；取消；阻止 Her remarks were intended to scotch rumours of imminent job losses.她的话意在制止即将裁员的谣言。 Synonym thwart Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably bottleneck derail fireproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusive prejudice prevent preventable preventative scuttle smother Examples of scotchedscotched In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Any untoward expansion of output, whenever it occurs, must immediately be scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is probably wrong, but things like that have got to be scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That myth has been well and truly scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the myth that is being put about and it needs to be scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now know that the so-called reform, proposals have been scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We thought we had scotched baby farming, but recent cases show we have not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is quite untrue and the idea could be scotched by looking at the figures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The surprise result definitely scotched all the allegations that the election would be stolen by cheating by the authorities. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we have not entirely solved and scotched the germ of inflation, we have at least checked the more violent forms of the disease. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think the idea ought to be scotched purely on the argument of there being difficulty in the way of a fair distribution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I very much hope that this idea of a tax will be scotched here and now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would be the first to wish for any proposal to be scotched that would increase the number of appeals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No doubt, if such rumours were around, it is as well to have them scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I doubt whether the snake has been scotched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What must at all costs be scotched is the natural inequality of the individual. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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