barb

英/ bɑːb /

美/ bɑːrb /

TOEFL/GRE/GMAT/

1
倒钩
...位门将虽然丢了两个球，但斯科尔斯的远射和汉格兰德的乌龙谁也无济于事，在本场比赛中，他接连扑出贝尔巴托夫的近距离倒钩(Barb)和埃尔南德斯的多次射门，中场前他还扑出了纳尼的点球，让球队没有丧失扳平比分的希望。
2
柏布马
...武士和他们英勇的坐骑大举入侵、横扫欧陆的时候，虽然也有阿拉伯马随着土耳其人和汪达尔人驰骋沙场，但比他们强壮的柏布马(Barb)和土耳其马(Turk)，更令欧洲人印象深刻，并为之惊艳。
3
[昆] 倒刺
第一联支架无移植物覆盖，前端可略散开，也可装上倒刺（barb），以利固定，防止移位。
4
[鸟] 羽支
... 羽轴：scape 羽支：barb 羽纹纲：pennate diatoms ...

短语

1
The barb stung her exactly the way he hoped it would.
他的讽刺如期伤到了她。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2
But please, just call me Barb.
但是请叫我Barb就好了。
3
Barack Obama assumed the barb was aimed at him.
巴拉克·奥巴马认为此番刻薄的言论是在针对自己。

词根：barb

BARB
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) is the organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1981 to replace a previous systems whereby ITV ratings were compiled by JICTAR (Joint Industry Committee for Television Audience Research), whilst the BBC did their own audience research.BARB is jointly owned by the BBC, the TP companies, Channel 4, Channel 5, BSkyB, and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Participating viewers have a box on top of their TV sets which tracks the programmes they watch.

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