- 1狙擊手。遊戲裡講「狙擊手」「狙擊槍」就是這個字，台灣學生多半先從遊戲認識它。動詞 snipe at someone 則是「暗酸、放冷箭」，那個「躲起來偷打」的畫面是一樣的。
A sniper is a shooter who works from far away and out of sight. The two ideas both matter: distance and hiding. A sniper picks a roof, a window, a tree line, waits, and one careful shot — this is not a soldier running forward and shooting a lot. In war reporting the word is neutral and technical: army snipers are highly trained and work in pairs, one shooting and one watching. In news about cities, sniper carries fear — a sniper on the roof, sniper fire, the people below unable to see where the danger is. That invisibility is the whole feeling of the word. It has spread outside war in two directions. In video games, players everywhere use sniper for the long-range class or the rifle itself, and students very often meet the word here first. And in office and internet talk, to snipe at someone means to attack them with small critical remarks from a safe position — the same picture, hidden shooter, moved into words. Notice one small oddity of English: a sniper snipes, but a person who snipes at colleagues is not called a sniper.
組成snipe (a small fast bird that is very hard to shoot) + -er (a person who does it). Shooting snipe was thought to need real skill, so a good hidden marksman was called a sniper — the name came from the bird, not from the war.
同家族的字
- snipethe bird, and the verb meaning to shoot or attack from hiding
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
snipernoun/ˈsnaɪ.pɚ/
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A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
- The sniper shot him in the head.
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A sniper rifle.
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Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position.
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One who shoots from a concealed position.
- The British, having cleared the open field, now faced the problem of advancing through the trees into the sniper fire of several hundred Virginia militia.
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One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others.
- No winnable seat has been found for Mr. H. L. Nathan, a powerful recruit from the Liberal ranks, and poor Mr. Wedgwood Benn, an invaluable sniper for a party in Opposition, has been out of Parliament now since 1931.
- They always sniped at each other in public. German snipers were a wishy-washy lot compared with Lester and his wife.
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A hunter of snipe (the bird).
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slanghobbiesice-hockeylifestyleA player who specializes in scoring goals.
- Alexander Ovechkin is often regarded as the greatest sniper of his generation.
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A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond
- The real reason most snipers bid late in the auction is that they feel it helps them obtain bargains at the expense of novices who don't understand how proxy bidding works and who place bids for less than the amount they are really willing to pay.
- Sniping is the process of placing bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Snipers do this to avoid bidding wars that escalate the bids to more than they want to pay. Bidders can protect themselves against snipers by bidding the absolute maximum amount they are willing to pay with eBay's proxy bidding system.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。