万象西游

half-cocked

最后更新时间: 2025-04-29 07:36:33

half-cocked如何读

英：['hɑ:f'kɒkt]

美：['hɑf'kɒkt]

half-cocked是什么意思

adj.已扣到半击发位置的；轻率行动的

half-cocked英英释义

adjective

being at half cock

lacking adequate preparation or forethought

go off half-cocked

half-cocked词源英文解释

The first known use of half-cocked was in 1689

half-cocked儿童词典英英释义

half-moonnoun

the moon when half its disk appears lighted

half-mastnoun

a point about halfway down below the top of a mast or staff

flags hanging at half-mast

half-lifenoun

the time required for half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to change composition

half hournoun

thirty minutes

the middle point of an hour

half hitchnoun

a simple knot so made as to be easily unfastened see knot illustration

half-dollarnoun

a coin representing one half of a dollar

the sum of fifty cents

half-cockedadjective

lacking preparation or planning

went off half-cocked

half-cocked 例句

1 Now, let's think this over . Let's not go off at half - cocked.

让我们仔细考虑一下这件事吧,不可操之过急.

2 Don't half cocked when you talk to your professor.

当你与你的教授讲话时,别操之过急.

3 She wanted to quit her job but her mother told her not to go off half - cocked.

她想离职,但她妈妈告诉她不要仓促行事.

half-cocked 同义词

1 准备不充分

underprepared half-cock

2 处于半击发状态

half cock

3 荒唐的

rich crazy ridiculous insane ludicrous grotesque giddy ungodly wanton unearthly

4 过早行动

go off at half cock

5 半醉

half-corned half-shot half-slewed half-stewed half-cut half seas over

6 仓促的

running hasty brash cursory hurried snap

7 准备不充分的

underprepared

8 仓促

running hasty brash cursory hurried snap haste helter-skelter in haste

9 准备不足的

green underprepared

10 荒唐

rich crazy ridiculous insane ludicrous grotesque giddy ungodly wanton unearthly fantasticality

11 半醉的

half-corned half-shot half-slewed half-stewed half-cut