| 单词 | hook |
| 例句 | hook noun 1.•she hung her jacket on the hook:peg, coat rack. 2.•the dress has six hooks:fastener, fastening, catch, clasp, hasp, clip, pin. 3.•I had a fish on the end of my hook:fishhook, barb, gaff, snare, snag. 4.•a right hook to the chin:punch, blow, hit, cuff, thump, smack | informal belt, bop, sock, clout, whack, wallop, slug | informal boff.▶verb 1.•they hooked baskets onto the ladder:attach, hitch, fasten, fix, secure, clasp. 2.•he hooked his thumbs in his belt:curl, bend, crook, loop, curve. 3.•he hooked a 24-pound pike:catch, land, net, take | bag, snare, trap. PHRASES by hook or by crook •I'll get to Hollywood by hook or by crook:by any means, somehow (or other), no matter how, in one way or another, by fair means or foul. hook, line, and sinker •they believed her phony alibi hook, line, and sinker:completely, totally, utterly, entirely, wholly, absolutely, through and through, one hundred percent, 'lock, stock, and barrel'. hook up •why would Becky want to hook up with a loser like him? get together, pair up, make a twosome | get romantic, have sex. off the hook informal •Mr. Lee paid the fine, so now Tammy is off the hook:out of trouble, in the clear, free, home free | acquitted, cleared, reprieved, exonerated, absolved | informal let off. WORD NOTE hook up, hookup In the title essay of his book Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe wrote that to anyone over the age of 9 in the year 2000, the term always referred to a sexual experience, but that the “nature and extent” of the experience varied widely. Several twenty-something sources report that the imprecision of the term is precisely the point. From California: “It makes space for everything from what another generation might have called making out right up to full-on intercourse—that ambiguity preserves a modicum of privacy in a largely privacy-free discourse. You can tell people you've hooked up with someone without giving away all the who-did-what-to-whom.” A hookup is a casual encounter, no history, no obligations, but it can lead to something more serious. From New York: “My relationship with my girlfriend began with a hookup, since we'd never met before that night, and developed into a relationship. That didn't retrospectively make it not a hookup.” — JSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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