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pump-action

/puhmp-ak-shuhn/US // ˈpʌmpˌæk ʃən //

泵动式,泵式行动,泵动,泵动式的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.

Examples

  • While this deferred action is controversial in the United States, in Mexico, what Obama did is universally popular.

  • This is where much of the action will be for anti-LGBT groups.

  • In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.

  • Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.

  • The possibility that the same outcome could happen another way -- namely a guy asks me out -- keeps me from taking action.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

  • The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.

  • Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.

  • The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.