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shoo

/shoo/US // ʃu //UK // (ʃuː) //

咻,嘘嘘,呜呼,嘘

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interj.感叹词 interjection
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    v.有主动词 verb
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      shooed, shoo·ing.

      • : to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”
      • : to request or force to leave: I'll have to shoo you out of here now.
    v.无主动词 verb
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      shooed, shoo·ing.

      • : to call out “shoo.”

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    Examples

    • If many dolphins are getting shooed away from an area or are too scared to eat or reproduce, that could hurt their whole community.

    • As the archaeologists worked, he shooed grazing sheep to make sure they didn’t walk across the site.

    • Built on years of breakthroughs in deep learning, it could pick up all kinds of objects with remarkable accuracy, making it a shoo-in for jobs like sorting products into packages at warehouses.

    • The casting in this movie really is brilliant across the board, and if there were an Oscar for casting, Promising Young Woman would be a shoo-in.

    • Before the neighbors stepped in to help, Si and his wife would take turns guarding the house each night, hoping their presence would shoo away the teenagers.

    • Still “Happy,” truthfully, should have been a shoo-in for Record of the Year given its incessant popularity this past year.

    • Of course the opposite is true too--if McAuliffe bucks history and wins, then Politico will have to write that HRC is a shoo-in.

    • The Gyllenhaal siblings are also a shoo-in, though I fear I would jibber and jabber—and possibly giggle—over Jake.

    • When the rest of us would stand, we could watch parts of the ceremony until security would try to shoo us back to our seats.

    • The Iron Lady actress bested frontrunner Viola Davis, who seemed a shoo-in for her turn in The Help.

    • The grotesque fancy came into my head that she would do the same thing if she wanted to shoo some chickens out of a garden.

    • A gust o' win' is skirlin' the noo, and as we luik ower the faem, the haar is risin', weetin' the green swaird wi' misty shoo'rs.

    • The draper wasna certain that so licht a shoo'r could richtly be called rain.

    • Every night at milking time I shoo them out until they finally get it into their heads they are not wanted.

    • Cap Pike left the fire to stand guard over the water barrels and shoo the mules away.