词汇 | whopper |
释义 | whopper noun[ C ] uk /ˈwɒp.ər/ us /ˈwɑː.pɚ/ humorousinformal something that is surprising because it is so much bigger than the usual size: 庞然大物;超大的东西 My nose is pretty big, but my Dad's got a whopper.我的鼻子已经很大了,而我爸爸的鼻子更大。 humorous a big lie: 弥天大谎 Amanda's told some whoppers in her time.阿曼达曾撒过一些大慌。 Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinate precipitous prodigiously stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized thumping walloping yawning yawningly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Lies, lying & hypocrisy whopper | American Dictionarywhopper noun[ C ] infmlus/ˈhwɑp·ər, ˈwɑp-/ something that is much bigger than the usual size: Your monthly payment is a whopper. A whopper is also a big lie: Fishermen are supposed to tell the biggest whoppers. whoppingadjectiveus/ˈhwɑp·ɪŋ, ˈwɑp-/ infml The mayor was elected by a whopping majority. Examples of whopperwhopper Perhaps they are telling me whoppers in my home country! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we are concerned about that, ought we not to be more concerned about the "whoppers" which will be coming on to our oceans at a later date? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His fantastic accounts are in fact, outright lies, or whoppers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Prior to that the rules governing combination of before/after methods and so-called whoppers methods (around) was fixed, and the compiler just generated the code for that. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After five years of huge tax increases, we get the whopper tax increase. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can only presume that it is based on the notion that if one tells a big enough whopper, and tells it often enough, no one will notice it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well, that is a whopper. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not an easy task, as each family whopper is more despicable than the last. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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