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A peashooter is a small tube — cheap plastic, a reed, or a bit of wood — that a child puts to their mouth and blows through, so a dried pea (or a paper ball, or some other tiny thing) flies out the other end. It is a toy, not a real weapon. You aim at a tin, a wall, or, though actually teachers hate this bit, at another child. Adults sometimes stretch the word: they call a weak or very small gun a peashooter, meaning it cannot do much. The object feels a little old-fashioned now, but the name is still famous because of the game Plants vs. Zombies, where a little plant shoots peas; that plant was named after this toy. Informal.
豌豆槍(兒童玩具)。遊戲《植物大戰殭屍》裡的「豌豆射手」也是這個詞。
組成pea + shooter. A pea is the small round seed children originally blew through the tube; a shooter is a thing that sends something flying. Often written pea-shooter.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
peashooternoun/ˈpiːˌʃuːtə(ɹ)/
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A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small objects are blown.
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A person who uses such a device.
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slangengineeringgovernmentmilitaryAny small or ineffective gun or weapon.
- Compared to my forty-five, it's a toy. Christ, Thanet, why did you buy it in the first place? I would have given you one of mine, a real weapon, one with knock down power, compared to that peashooter on your hip.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。