beat-up

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a. 破旧的

词形变化

beat-ups 复数 more beat-up 比较级 most beat-up 最高级

释义与例句

n.
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    An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.

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    2009, Natasha Robinson, 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry', The Australian, Business section “It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up."

    2009, Michael Cook, 'Is Britain’s stem cell crisis a beat-up?', BioEdge Few areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research.

adj.
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    Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair

    非正式

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

battered

近义相关 1

damaged

词源

Deverbal from beat up.

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