| 单词 | whopper |
| 释义 | whop·per /ˈwɒpə $ ˈwɑːpər/ noun [countable] informal 1 LIE/TELL A LIEa lie 谎话 She tells one whopper after another. 她说起谎来一个接一个。2 BIGsomething unusually big 庞然大物，特大的东西 The fish Mike caught was a whopper. 迈克捉到的这条鱼特别大。Examples from the Corpuswhopper• And as many as 2,500 whopper swans feed on the farmland adjacent to the lough.• This storm's going to be a whopper.• She lay on the bank for a long time waiting patiently until she spotted a whopper.• No one even had a hangar big enough for building such a whopper, let alone the risk capital.• And if our leaders were going to lie about their methods, they were almost by necessity going to tell a whopper.• I came up with a whopper.• She tells one whopper after another.Origin whopper (1700-1800) whopwhop·per nounChineseSyllable a lie Corpus |
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