palooka

英式音标：[pə'lu:kə]

美式音标：[pə'lukə]

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概况：

n. 差劲的运动员

词义：

n.

差劲的运动员，（尤指高大强壮而）笨手笨脚的人；

变形

复数：palookas

英英释义

palooka[ pə'lu:kə ]

n.a second-rate prize fighter

同义词：stumblebum

用法：

权威例句

Pete Latzo

FILTRATION LAW FOR POLYMER FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA

palooka

Palooka

The Australian Business Cycle: Joe Palooka or Dead Cat Bounce?

The Australian Business Cycle: Job Palooka or Dead Cat Bounce?

Fight Card: Front Page Palooka

Tennessee Williams's The Palooka : A Promising Boxer, THE KID and a Forgotten Boxer, THE PALOOKA

Who's a Palooka?

Joe-Palooka goes to war (Popular American comic strip character during the World War II era)

英语词源：

palooka (n.)

"mediocre prizefighter," 1926, of unknown origin, credited to U.S. sportswriter and "Variety" staffer Jack Conway (d.1928). Non-boxing sense of "average person" is from Joe Palooka, hero of Ham Fisher's comic strip.

造句：

1. A thin twist of smoke curled from the cottage's single chimney.

一缕盘旋的轻烟从农舍唯一的烟囱里缭绕升起。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Smoke was curling up the chimney.

烟从烟囱里袅袅升起。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The chimney was smoking fiercely.

烟囱里浓烟滚滚。

来自柯林斯例句

4. I roped myself to the chimney.

我用绳子把自己系在烟囱上。

来自柯林斯例句

5. He threw the paper onto the fire and it flew up the chimney.

他把那张纸扔进火里，纸飘进了烟道。

来自《权威词典》

[ chimney 造句 ]