| 词汇 | toss |
| 释义 | toss verb uk /tɒs/ us /tɑːs/ tossverb (THROW)C2[ Tusually+ adv/prep ] to throw something carelessly: （随意地）扔，掷，抛 He glanced at the letter and then tossed it into the bin.他扫了一眼信就把它丢进了垃圾箱。 The bull tossed him up into the air.公牛把他顶到了半空中。 [ + two objects ]Andrew tossed him the ball.安德鲁将球抛给他。 to throw something throwThe kids were outside throwing snowballs at each other. tossShe tossed the keys into her bag and went out. chuckHe read the letter and chucked it into the bin. flingHe crumpled up the letter and flung it into the fire. hurlIn a fit of temper he hurled the book across the room. lobThe boys spent an hour lobbing stones into the lake. Let's toss a coin to see who'll go first.我们掷硬币来决定谁先去吧。 He tossed the letter into the bin. They tossed the beggars a few coins. I tossed a few clothes into a suitcase. I tossed a clove of garlic into the stew. Throwing arm cannon cast flick fling heave hurl outpitch overhand peg precipitate sidearm sling stone thread throw throw something in underarm underhand unseat tossverb (FOOD)[ T ] When you toss food you shake or mix small pieces of it together with a sauce or dressing: 摇匀，搅拌（食物） a tossed salad拌色拉 (be) tossed inServe French beans tossed in a little garlic butter. toss a pancakeUK to quickly and suddenly lift the pan in which a pancake (= a thin, flat, round cake) is cooking so that the pancake goes up into the air and turns over before falling back into the pan: 把煎饼颠起翻面 Ben came second in the competition after tossing a pancake 21 times. Preparing food batch cooking biga bind breadmaking butter buttered clarify glaze glazed grate ingredient jerk rehydrate restuff rice rustle something up scoby stir whip zap tossverb (MOVE)[ T ] If you toss your hair or a part of your body you move it up and back suddenly: 向后甩（头发或身体部位） She tossed her head in annoyance.她生气地将头向后一甩。 She tossed back her hair.她向后甩了甩头发。 toss and turnC2[ I ] to move about from side to side or turn a lot in bed, especially because you cannot sleep: （尤指因无法入睡而）翻来覆去，辗转反侧 I was tossing and turning all night.我整晚辗转反侧，无法入睡。 Making short, sudden movements aquiver chatter choppily choppiness convulse convulsion flick jar jerk jerkily jerkiness jerky quake quiver recoil shaky shook shudder squirm whip tossverb (COIN)C1[ I or T ](alsotoss someone for something); (UK alsotoss up) to throw a coin up into the air and guess which side will land facing up, as a way of making a decision: 掷硬币决定 toss (a coin)Let's toss (a coin) to see who'll go first.我们掷硬币来决定谁先去吧。 "I'll toss you for it - heads or tails?"“我和你掷硬币来决定——你要正面还是反面？” Decisions and deciding ascription be make or break for someone/somethingidiom be on the horns of a dilemmaidiom choose clinch conclusion finalize fish or cut baitidiom flip flip a coinidiom get something into your headidiom judge resolution see fitidiom sleep split decision swing swing the balanceidiom take it into your head to do somethingidiom take the plungeidiom tossverb (THROW OUT)[ Tusually passive ]USinformal to order a sports player or manager to leave a game because they have broken a rule: I got tossed after I argued with the officials. The umpire tossed our pitcher for deliberately throwing at a batter. Emitting and ejecting carbon emissions discharge displace displaced displacement eject ejection ejector emission emitter expel expulsion exude give something off loose send send something out shed shedding spew Phrasal verbstoss something around toss something aside toss something away toss something off toss (someone) off toss something out toss up toss noun uk /tɒs/ us /tɑːs/ tossnoun (MOVEMENT)[ Cusually singular ] a sudden quick movement: 掷;甩 toss of someone's head"I don't care," she replied with a toss of her head.“我不在乎。”她甩了甩头回答道。 Making short, sudden movements aquiver chatter choppily choppiness convulse convulsion flick jar jerk jerkily jerkiness jerky quake quiver recoil shaky shook shudder squirm whip tossnoun (THROW)a coin toss(alsoa toss of a coin) an act of throwing a coin in the air and guessing which side will land facing upward as a way of deciding something: 掷硬币决定 United won the coin toss. win/lose the toss to guess correctly/wrongly which side of a coin will be facing up when it lands on the ground after being thrown: 在掷硬币中猜对了／猜错了 The team that wins the toss gets to start the game. [ C ] an act of throwing something in a careless or relaxed way漫不经心地（或不小心地）投掷 Throwing arm cannon cast flick fling heave hurl outpitch overhand peg precipitate sidearm sling stone thread throw throw something in underarm underhand unseat Idiomnot give/care a toss toss | American Dictionarytoss verb[ T ] us/tɔs/ to throw gently or easily: He tossed his dirty clothes on the floor. Matthew tossed the ball to his brother. When you toss food, you gently mix small pieces of it together or with a sauce: I tossed the salad. If you toss your hair or your head, you move it suddenly: The girl tossed her hair out of her eyes. toss a coin If you toss a coin, you choose between two possibilities by throwing a coin into the air and letting each side represent one of the possibilities, then accepting the possibility represented by the side that lands facing up: We tossed to see who would go first. Idiomtoss (and turn) Phrasal verbstoss around something toss off something toss out something toss noun[ C ] us/tɔs/ a sudden, quick movement or throw: "I don’t care," she replied with a toss of her head. Examples of tosstoss Below, they are confused and redistributed and tossed around endlessly. As she tossed silk drapes around her body to create changing forms and shapes, the silk was variously illuminated. We should toss a coin if u x 1, 000 is more important than the good of half a life saved. Even if we save the lives of either side by tossing a coin, it is still unfair to people who are not saved. At the word 'tourbillonnent', human figures are tossed by the same wind that blows on the mandoline in the final lines. This means that if there is only one candidate, then no coin tosses are needed. An example of such an action with an unpredictable outcome is the toss of a coin. Surely the difference between these cannot matter if the information about how the toss lands is equally inaccessible to you in both cases? In the second movement, melody is fragmented and the effect almost pointillistic as ideas are tossed between solo instruments in chamber-music fashion. But even if he wins that challenge, another baby has just been tossed out with the bathwater. The main figure is a naked young woman, arms raised, head tossed back, who reveals her teeth within a barely open mouth. The problem is that without diggers exposing the quartz and tossing the "leaverites," there is hardly anything on the ground. It turns out that he should start suspecting something is wrong after 8 heads are tossed in a row, because 0.99r0.58<0.01r0.5. The two women began tossing verse phrases back and forth giving the composer the idea of using a 'call-and-response' technique for much of the work. We might instead, for example, prefer to allocate the life-saving drug by tossing a fair coin, giving an equal chance to both patients. See all examples of toss 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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