strafe
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–verb (used with object)
1. to attack (ground troops
or
installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
2. Slang. to reprimand viciously.
–noun
3. a strafing attack.
After 175 days, war arrives, and Mendes, who is as much designer as director, cuts to the beige-on-beige battlefield. Jarhead goes slo-mo and subjective as the boys get a brief taste of action—
that they're strafed by U.S. [bombers] only adds to the solipsism.
Plus, the frustration seems eternal. When sniper Swoff finally receives a mission, minutes before the war ends, he has to radio the base for permission to even squeeze off a shot.
Mainly what these guys do is bear witness—stumbling through a landscape of incinerated jeeps, charred corpses, and oil wells blazing in the beyond-Coppola apocalyptic night.
。刀槍不入
cutlery
Whenever a framed photograph of a spoon appears on screen, which it frequently does, audience members throw [fistfuls] of plastic cutlery.
sheath
hilt
to play the role to the [hilt]
shank
saber
Abortionist are the new Robin Hoods, the new chivalrous knights. They no longer defend windows and orphans, they saved women from the disgrace in their bellies. The scalpel replaces the sword, the probe replaced the sabre. Women always belong to their rescuers. 馬刀,軍刀【體】佩劍
Patton was also an expert fencer. He re-wrote the U.S. Army's manuals on swordsmanship removing the 'parry.' His idea was for all attack. Defence just wasted energy. Such was his mastery of swordsmanship that he designed the last saber ever to be worn into battle as a weapon, the M1913 Cavalry Saber, commonly known as the "Patton Saber".
rapier
...because the law is a [blunt] instrument. It is not a rapier. It is a [cudgel]. Tomorrow, death penalty. Which reminds me of the comedian who said "Why do they call it the death penalty? It's no penalty. You're out of the game!" 一種細長的劍
bayonet
I'm better with a bayonet than with a pencil. 刺刀 (用以固定插入的部件的) 卡釘,卡銷,卡栓
shiv
I bet it taught him not to carry a shiv anymore. Or do you still claim that knife was planted on ya?【俚】刀,剃刀,彈簧刀
sickle
hoe
spud
You wanna go out back? Get some spud up?
cf. ratchet
Throttle
hatchet
has a [face] like a rusty hatchet (needle nose, scraggly [beard])
and—published in George—a [scurrilous] hatchet job on Clinton crony Vernon Jordan.
Boasting both a [uniformly] excellent cast and a screenplay by John Osborne that remains one of the cinema's most successful literary hatchet jobs,
machete
If you screw me on this, I'm gonna come over there with a machete.
cachet
An infamous scene of Moore flashing her black [brassiere] at the camera gave the sitcom goddess [cachet] with a whole new audience in the '90s.
pic's kudo [cachet] and bankable title should earn worldwide distrib Gaumont some cashback of its own from savvy younger viewers.
when Darko's [cachet] clearly could have garnered better talent?
mace
maul
One of her bright ideas got him [mauled] by a lynx.
ram
Freshman director Posin has one message he [rams] home in increasingly unsubtle,
nunchakus
gaff
at my gaff, 9:00, all right? 魚叉【海】斜桁
Often he would point out [gaffes] or mistakes in continuity. That's not criticism. That's really a [pea]-brained kind of fan [gibberish].
harpoon
lance
brought him to the end of his attempts to [lance] the [wound] of his suffering
。槍砲彈藥
Squib
。軍事
Pyrotechnic
Strafe
- Jan 23 Fri 2009 20:20
Strafe (續:武器 槍砲彈藥 單字大集合)
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