喜樂美語

sabre-rattle

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，方便你先看懂它的意思。

sabre-rattleverb

  • 1

    To threaten a big battle or war.

    • Then you speak of "the President's spread-eagle patriotism," his delight in "barnyard language," his "readiness to sabre-rattle at the ripple of a flag,"
    • The Chinese and the Russians sabre-rattle like mad against each other, but they both seem to be super-practical countries in that they trade with each other when they need to.

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。