stab

1. V-T If someone stabs you, they push a knife or sharp object into your body. (用刀等利器) 刺; 捅

Somebody stabbed him in the stomach. 有人刺了他的腹部。

Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver. 迪安試圖用一把螺絲刀捅他。

2. V-T/V-I If you stab something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding. (用手指或手中尖物) 戳; 捅; 按

Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber. 貝斯戳起一片黃瓜。

Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for. 戈德斯通快速繙動(dòng)書頁(yè)，用拇指按住他正在尋找的段落。

3. N-SING If you have a stab at something, you try to do it. 嘗試[非正式]

Several tennis stars have had a stab at acting. 幾位網(wǎng)球明星曾嘗試過縯戯。

4. N-SING You can refer to a sudden, usually unpleasant feeling as a stab of that feeling. 刺痛[文學(xué)性]

...a stab of pain just above his eye. …他眼睛上方的一陣刺痛。

5. PHRASE If you say that someone has stabbed you in the back, you mean that they have done something very harmful to you when you thought that you could trust them. You can refer to an action of this kind as a stab in the back. 在背後捅某人一刀

She felt betrayed, as though her daughter had stabbed her in the back. 她感到被出賣了，倣彿是她的女兒在背後捅了她一刀。