| 词汇 | scotching |
| 释义 | scotching present 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 scotchingscotching In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. I seem to begin all my replies by scotching canards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is better for me to concentrate on trying to make the plan effective thereby scotching rumours in the newspapers. 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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