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A smasher is a person who is good-looking, or a thing that is wonderful. It is warm, old-fashioned British slang — the kind of thing a grandmother says about a photograph: 'Oh, isn't she a smasher!' You will hear it mostly from older speakers in Britain and Ireland, and it is now quite rare among young people, so it can sound dated. It is always a compliment and never rude. The word is used with a/an: he's a smasher, that's a smasher of a car. When it describes a thing it just means excellent — 'the party was a smasher.' Because it feels old, it is a word to recognise in books, films and songs rather than one to reach for yourself.
(英式舊時口語)大美人、大帥哥;超棒的東西
原始詞典資料6 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。
smashernoun/smæʃɚ/
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Something that, or someone who, smashes.
- With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
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historicalbusinessminingSomething that, or someone who, smashes.
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slangAn attractive person (see also smashing).
- You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role
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datedslangAnything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
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obsoleteslangOne who passes counterfeit money.
- The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
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obsoleteslangThe counterfeit money itself.
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。