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rat

/rat/US // ræt //UK // (ræt) //

大鼠,小鼠,老鼠,鼠类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
    • : any of various similar or related animals.
    • : Slang. a scoundrel.
    • : Slang. a person who abandons or betrays his or her party or associates, especially in a time of trouble.an informer.a scab laborer.
    • : Slang. a person who frequents a specified place: a mall rat;gym rats.
    • : a pad with tapered ends formerly used in women's hairstyles to give the appearance of greater thickness.
interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : rats, Slang.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rat·ted, rat·ting.

    • : Slang. to desert one's party or associates, especially in a time of trouble.to turn informer; squeal: He ratted on the gang, and the police arrested them.to work as a scab.
    • : to hunt or catch rats.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rat·ted, rat·ting.

    • : to dress with or as if with a rat.
  1. 1
    • : rat out, Slang. to inform on: He ratted out his partners in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Phrases

  • rat on
  • rat race
  • like a drowned rat
  • smell a rat

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Both groups produced similar hormone spikes when stressed, but in the juvenile rats, levels took much longer to return to normal.

  • The team has already been placing them in rats and primates.

  • Other researchers studied what happens when adolescent rats move into “enriched” environments.

  • Blueberry-fed rats spent almost 70 percent of their time exploring the new object, as expected of animals that recognized the old object.

  • Even if they find your trash can instead, he adds, “that’s necessarily going to support fewer rats.”

  • One rat had once fallen on his head, he said, during a rat raid of a local home.

  • Since rat root comes from a plant that grows on the edge of the lake there are concerns that the plant is carrying toxins.

  • Chief Adam offers us some of the local medicine called rat root.

  • The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.

  • A cabin filled with the Rat Pack and the ladies who loved them.

  • Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.

  • He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."

  • Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.

  • I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.

  • Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.