brandishing

英 [ˈbrændɪʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈbrændɪʃɪŋ]

v.  挑衅地挥舞，激动地挥舞(尤指武器)
brandish的现在分词

现在分词：brandishing　

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

• Brandishing the rhetoric of inviolable property rights and the fear of property devaluation, the opponents of fair housing posed a formidable challenge.
  公平住房的反对者们鼓吹着神圣产权的辨词和财产贬值的恐惧，制造了一场难以对付的挑战。
• One poster showed the actress crouching and holding a gun pointing upward while the other showed her lying on her back across a car's hood, brandishing guns.
  其中一张海报中的茱丽持枪半蹲，枪口指向上方；另一张中茱丽则拿着手枪，躺在发目的盖上。
• While visiting a beach in the south of France one day, Pablo Picasso was approached by a small boy brandishing a blank sheet of paper.
  有一天，毕加索去到法国南部的沙滩上，有个小男孩手挥舞一张白纸，向他走来。
• He rushed into the room brandishing a letter.
  他挥舞着一封信冲进屋里。
• Said Ron indignantly, a bit of sausage flying off the fork he was now brandishing at Hermione and hitting Ernie Macmillan on the head. My whole family are blood traitors!
  罗恩气愤地说道，他朝赫敏挥舞着手里的叉子，结果叉子上的一小片香肠飞了出去，砸在厄尼·麦克米兰的脑袋上，我们全家都背叛了自己的血统！
• He also shows how Britain, by brandishing naval power, was able to prevent America from taking over British Columbia.
  钮金先生叙述了英国如何凭借海军力量阻止美国占领英属哥伦比亚。
• But as the vote came to an end, the winners made the mistake of brandishing their no ballots, making public what was supposed to be a private poll& and giving Ms. Hidalgo an opening to bring the whole matter to court.
  但是在投票接近尾声时，获胜方犯了个错，他们炫耀自己的否决票，公开了这个本该私密的投票，伊达尔戈因此可以把整件事提交法庭。
• They sprang about brandishing their spears.
  他们挥舞着长矛跳来跳去。
• Suddenly several teenagers appeared brandishing guns – they threw us to the ground and tied us up.
  突然，几个青年人冒了出来，手里挥舞着手枪。他们将我们撂倒在地，然后绑了起来。
• Two soldiers were holding him, while two others were brandishing supple twigs and bringing them down at regular intervals on the man's bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally.
  两名士兵捉住他，另外两名挥动着柔软的树条，有节奏地抽挞着他的裸露的背脊，受惩罚的人异乎寻常地吼叫。