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tidbit

/tid-bit/US // ˈtɪdˌbɪt //UK // (ˈtɪdˌbɪt) //

趣闻,趣闻轶事,趣闻趣事,趣闻杂谈

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a delicate bit or morsel of food.
    • : a choice or pleasing bit of anything, as news or gossip.

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Examples

  • The seven remaining contests are all viewed as safe for one party or the other, but there are a few interesting tidbits worth mentioning.

  • Without this tidbit, the investigators might have overlooked some patients, allowing the infected to unknowingly continue transmitting the disease.

  • Embarrassing tidbits were doled out over a period of weeks by WikiLeaks, disrupting the Clinton campaign with distracting news stories.

  • I draw out our conversation with small talk about medical school, Stanford, California weather—tidbits from Fox’s life that distract me, just briefly, from my own.

  • Before Jump starts any meal prep, he pulls some sort of tidbit out to tide everyone over.

  • The trove of documents did reveal one little tidbit of advice for Clinton if she runs for President in 2016.

  • Any way you look at it, though, an interesting tidbit to chew on.

  • Every conversation circles back to a scandalous tidbit: Jill Kelley and Gen. John Allen exchanged 30,000 emails!

  • The juiciest Ryan tidbit to surface over the weekend, though, was put out there by Chris Hayes on his show yesterday.

  • But then he added, in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper Wednesday, this jaw-dropping tidbit.

  • When it had finished its tidbit, the old man had also finished the packing up and putting away of his purchases.

  • He leaned over her tenderly; she fluttered her wings and opened her mouth, and he dropped into it the tidbit he had brought.

  • It stands in the same relationship as a tidbit to an animal as a beaver's tail does to a trapper.

  • That evening the flesh of the beavers went into the kettle, and their oily tails—the greatest tidbit of all—were fried in a pan.

  • He was always on the watch for some extra tidbit—always rooting about to find some dainty that others had overlooked.