brandished

英 [ˈbrændɪʃt]

美 [ˈbrændɪʃt]

v.  挑衅地挥舞，激动地挥舞(尤指武器)
brandish的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB (威胁地）挥舞（尤指武器）
  If youbrandishsomething, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
  1. He appeared in the lounge brandishing a knife.
     他挥舞着一把小刀，出现在休息室里。

双语例句

• The jester brandished his bauble.
  丑角挥动手中拿着的木棒。
• Holding a copy of the new magazine, he added: Just look at this Mohammed – he is so much more sympathetic than the one who is brandished [ by extremists].
  他手中拿着一份新一期杂志，补充说：看看这位穆罕默德，比起（极端主义者）宣示的那位，他的同情心要大多了。
• This may come as a disappointment, but most Viking men brandished scythes, not swords.
  这也许是挺让人失望的一件事，维京男人们最经常使用的不是剑，而是镰刀。
• When Argentinian referee Horacio Elizondo halted play and then brandished a red card, Gerrard initially thought it was for a Portuguese player.
  当阿根廷主裁判暂停比赛并出示一张红牌，杰拉德最初还认为那是给一名葡萄牙球员。
• Repeatedly, Vautrin confronted Japanese troops at the gates of the college and ordered them to stay out, even as they cursed her and brandished in her face bayonets dripping with blood.
  在学校的大门口，魏特琳多次挺身阻止日军进入校内，并命令他们离开，甚至当日军咒骂她和用血迹斑斑的刺刀在她脸上乱晃时，她也毫不退让。
• Eevery time when I brandished the racket to hit the ball and watch it flying over the net
  每次挥舞球拍击球时，看着它飞越球网
• He brandished a sheaf of documents.
  他手里挥舞着一扎文件。
• With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
  跟著他身后弥漫著雾气的白色道路与他高高挥舞的双刃长剑！
• Anti Japanese literature vividly presented the images of Chinese intellectuals, who brandished the two way long whip of interrogation with torture within self and the world under the heavy pressure of the war.
  抗战时期文学真切呈现了中国知识分子在战争的沉重压力下，在自我和世界间双向舞动拷问的长鞭的形象。
• The president-elect has brandished his reputation for non-partisanship and for a willingness to negotiate.
  这位当选总统一直在炫耀自己的无党派和愿意协商的声誉。