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public enemy number one

头号公敌,一号公敌,第一号公敌,第一公敌

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a criminal at the top of the FBI's list of the ten most wanted criminals.
    • : a major menace to public safety, health, etc.: Cancer is Public Enemy Number One.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

  • Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

  • Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

  • If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.