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zap

/zap/US // zæp //UK // (zæp) slang //

斩钉截铁,斩断,斩首,斩获

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    zapped, zap·ping.

    • : to kill or shoot.
    • : to attack, defeat, or destroy with sudden speed and force.
    • : to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, etc.
    • : to strike or jolt suddenly and forcefully.
    • : to cook in a microwave oven.
    • : to skip over or delete, as by switching channels or pushing a fast-forward button on a playback device: We recorded the show on our VCR but zapped all the commercials.
    • : to add a sudden infusion of energy, verve, color, attractiveness, or the like: just the thing to zap up your spring wardrobe.
v.无主动词 verb
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    zapped, zap·ping.

    • : to move quickly, forcefully, or destructively: high-voltage currents zapping overhead.
n.名词 noun
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    • : force, energy, or drive; zip.
    • : a jolt or charge, as or as if of electricity.
    • : a forceful and sudden blow, hit, or attack.
    • : any method of political activism, usually of a disruptive nature.

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Examples

  • With a small electric zap used as an activation stimulus, the cells were able to divide as normal.

  • This isn’t relegated only to how much space you have for these kitchen appliances but has more to do with how much food you need to heat during a single zap session.

  • In 2020, we heard endless ideas for gadgets and gizmos to zap viruses and help keep people safe.

  • As the number of laser zaps increased, the mouse’s GPS place cell network “remapped,” in that he stopped licking as much in the previous goal zone.

  • Remarkably, mice given the electrical zaps showed less amounts of pro-inflammatory chemicals in their blood—dubbed cytokines—than those without the stimulation.

  • Zap This” On August 8, 2009, Tom and Ray talked to a caller whose problem was more animal than automotive.

  • Carl Zimmer, Wired They could produce drugs that would zap the viruses behind common illnesses.

  • Forrester drew a careful bead on it, went zap again with the pointed finger, and blasted the rock into dust.

  • One little zap would do it, and Alvin Sherdlap would encumber the Earth no more.

  • Flix was with him, and Adams, who was heading the column, could hear the shouts of the Zappo Zap.

  • He sat now in what little shadow there was, watching the figure of the Zappo Zap.

  • They seized on the tent, the Zappo Zap laughing and with teeth glinting in the sun.