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turkey
释义
- n.
- 火鸡；火鸡肉；吐绶鸡；失败
- 网络
- 土耳其；土尔其；土耳其共和国日
展开详细释义
n.
1.土耳其(横跨西亚与东南欧一国家,首都为Ankara)
2.土耳其〔亚洲〕
3.〔美俚〕五角银币;随身携带的卧具;装器具的帆布袋
4.〔美俚〕懦夫
5.连三好球
6.〔美俚〕(装模作样)摆臭架子的人
7.〔美俚〕劣等货品[作品];演出失败,失败的广播节目
8.【鸟类】火鸡,吐绶鸡
词形变化
复数：turkeys
常用短语 4 组
- roast turkey
- 烤火鸡；烧火鸡
- cold turkey
- 突然完全停止使用毒品
- wild turkey
- 野火鸡（威士忌品牌）
- go cold turkey
- 快速戒掉坏习惯
在例句中理解 36 句
Resorting to litotes, it said "the accession negotiations with Turkey have regrettably not moved into any new areas for a year. "
使用反叙法这种修辞方法来说，很可惜，土耳其的入盟谈判一年内都没有任何新的进展。
Turkey is a developed country with a per capita GNP just a little lower than Australia.
土耳其是一个发达国家，人均国民生产总值仅比澳大利亚低一点的。
That was a deal-breaker, though Turkey, Brazil and recently Japan have been trying to keep talks going.
此举破坏了协议，让土耳其、巴西以及近来参与的日本期望继续商谈的努力付之东流。
The West does not seem to notice the steady deterioration in human rights in Turkey, instead extolling it as a model for the Arab spring.
西方国家似乎并没有看到土耳其人权状况的不断恶化，反而将其赞为阿拉伯世界春天的典范。
He said he realized he had an addictive personality and quit drinking cold turkey.
他说他意识到他曾沉迷于酒精中并且戒掉了这个不好的习惯。
Armenians call the deaths of their ancestors at the end of World War I a genocide. Turkey says it was a tragic result of war.
亚美尼亚人称祖先在一战末期大规模死亡的事件是种族灭绝，而土耳其人则称这是战争造成的悲剧。
Since then, presidents have been more likely to eat the turkey rather than give it a reprieve.
从那时开始，比起给这些火鸡缓刑，总统们更喜欢吃掉它们。
As a member of NATO that was for many years on the front-line of the cold war, Turkey was at least a reliable ally of the West.
作为北约的成员，土耳其在很多年里都是冷战的前线，而且至少也应是西方国家的忠实的盟友。
He even used his newly discovered method of conducting electricity in an attempt to cook a turkey, but instead gave himself a strong jolt.
他甚至还用他新发现的导电方法作一次烤火鸡的试验，但结果却是自己遭受一次强烈的电击。
Indeed, Turkey's Middle East offensive has taken on something of the scale and momentum of an invasion, albeit a peaceful one.
尽管土耳其的中东攻势是以和平为目的，但它也确实呈现了入侵的规模和势头。
Turkey's friends agree that as a seasoned diplomat with determinedly pro-Western views, Mr Gul would make a fine head of state.
居尔是一个富有经验的外交官，并持坚定的亲西方观点，这使得土耳其的盟友们认为他可以成为一个不错的国家首脑。
In just a few more days, I'll be back in New York eating turkey with my family.
再过几天，我就可以回到纽约的家和家人一起享用火鸡大餐。
The last thing the Americans want to see, as they pull out of Iraq, is a war between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds.
美国人最不希望看到的，就是在他们从伊拉克撤军之后，土耳其和伊拉克库尔德人之间发生战争。
On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire.
到那一天，土耳其将取消其公民自称为百万富翁的权利。
On a visit to Turkey, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the violence by pro-Gadhafi forces is unacceptable and should not go unpunished.
在对土耳其的访问中，法国总统尼古拉斯·萨科齐表示亲卡扎菲势力的镇压行为是不可容忍的，应该接受惩罚。
Turkey has by far the most powerful and effective military in Europe and is going to be a major Mediterranean power.
目前为止，土耳其是欧洲最强大有力的军事实体，它将成为地中海地区一个主要的势力。
All this shows up in perhaps Turkey's most serious economic problem: chronic unemployment (see chart 3).
所有的这一切都暴露了土耳其的或最为严重的经济问题：长期性失业。
If their luck had been as good as Turkey's they might have drawn against both Croatia and Germany and beaten Poland.
如果他们的运气像土耳其一样好，他们是可以打败克罗地亚，德国和波兰的。
This was a dance where the participants would quite literally just strut around like a turkey, in circles around one another.
参加这种舞蹈的人必须保持安静，像火鸡一样昂首阔步，互相绕圈。
We have been beating about the bush on the matter for so long and it's time to talk turkey.
在这个问题上我们兜了这么长时间的圈子了，现在也该说点儿真格的了。
I began to miss all those meetings, he admits. When you come out of it cold turkey, you realize you had a lot of human contact.
他承认自己开始怀念以前那种会议不断的时光，当你一个会都没有的时候，就会意识到从前开会时可以进行很多人际交往。
A ship carrying people suspected of trying to enter Europe illegally has sunk near the southern coast of Turkey.
一艘疑为载有企图非法到欧洲的人的船只在土耳其南部海岸附近沉没。
The girls were sedated during the worst of the flu and got home a few days after Thanksgiving, in time for a turkey dinner.
这对双胞胎面对猪流感，非常镇定，并于感恩节后不久就回到家中，及时赶上了火鸡晚餐。
Turkey was a NATO ally and was hoping to be admitted to the European Union, a development I had been strongly supporting for years.
土耳其是北约成员，并希望得到批准，加入欧盟，我多年来对此事一直非常支持。
Turkey and Brazil voted against the new UN sanctions, but today Brazil announced that it was reluctantly prepared to enforce them.
土耳其与巴西对于联合国新的制裁投了反对票，但巴西今天宣布，巴西将不情愿地准备实施制裁。
In a frenzied few days, however, Mr Zapatero has made up for it, with appearances in six countries from Chile to Turkey.
在很多天的繁忙中，Zapatero先生出现在从智利到土耳其中的六个国家中，他已为他的努力获得了补偿。
Now we see that what civilian government wants to do in Turkey can only be checked at the ballot box, not the generals anymore.
现在我们看到的是，土耳其文人政府的施政必须得到选民的认可，而不再听从军方将领的意见。
Then it was that Lottie knew why Bess had made no mention of her finery, or the shining room, or the twelve pound turkey.
那时珞蒂才明白何以碧丝都不提她美的服饰、漂亮的房间或者那只十二磅重的火鸡。
IT HAS become a joke for The Economist to say that a country is at a crossroads, yet for Turkey it happens to be spot on.
对《经济学人》而言，称一个国家处于十字路口，已成玩笑，然而此说法用在土耳其身上，却准确无误。
As one writer points out, to ask people to stop eating it is the equivalent of suggesting Americans give up turkey for Thanksgiving.
正如一位作家所指出的那样，要求人们不吃鱼翅就好比让美国人过感恩节时不要吃火鸡。
A country spread-eagles Asia and Europe —that is Turkey.
一个横跨欧亚大陆的国家，这就是土耳其。
One of the members of the Ulas family, from Turkey, some of whom walk on all fours.
乌纳塔恩家族的一名成员，来自土耳其，他们中的一些人四肢着地走路。
Turkey, Egypt and Mexico want to go beyond imagining.
土耳其、埃及和墨西哥希望超越梦想。
roast turkey
烤火鸡
They simply demolished the turkey.
他们全吃光了那只火鸡。
I knew then that we would have no turkey or ham for Christmas and I felt sad.
我知道在我们的圣诞节餐桌上肯定不会有火鸡或火腿，我感到难过。