brandished

英 [ˈbrændɪʃt]

美 [ˈbrændɪʃt]

v.  挑衅地挥舞，激动地挥舞(尤指武器)
brandish的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB (威胁地）挥舞（尤指武器）
  If youbrandishsomething, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
  1. He appeared in the lounge brandishing a knife.
     他挥舞着一把小刀，出现在休息室里。

双语例句

• Eevery time when I brandished the racket to hit the ball and watch it flying over the net
  每次挥舞球拍击球时，看着它飞越球网
• She had Toby beside her and she brandished his power like a club, attacking all the important studio executives.
  她有托比作靠山，象挥舞着棍棒似的使用他的权利，攻击所有重要的电影制片厂的头头。
• The president-elect has brandished his reputation for non-partisanship and for a willingness to negotiate.
  这位当选总统一直在炫耀自己的无党派和愿意协商的声誉。
• No one knows for sure whether it will ever be brandished from Frankfurt or if European treaties even allow it.
  没有人确切知道，法兰克福是否会挥舞这一武器，抑或欧洲协议是否会允许它存在。
• Repeatedly, Vautrin confronted Japanese troops at the gates of the college and ordered them to stay out, even as they cursed her and brandished in her face bayonets dripping with blood.
  在学校的大门口，魏特琳多次挺身阻止日军进入校内，并命令他们离开，甚至当日军咒骂她和用血迹斑斑的刺刀在她脸上乱晃时，她也毫不退让。
• The jester brandished his bauble.
  丑角挥动手中拿着的木棒。
• He brandished a sheaf of documents.
  他手里挥舞着一扎文件。
• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons& balancing them badly.
  敏捷而勇敢的陆军军长们挥舞着锋利的刀剑，大口径短枪和大头棒－体差点失去平衡。
• This in the end is the kind of progress or another brandished a knife from the palace then?
  这到底是类型的进步还是另一种挥刀自宫呢？
• Such an act by Dali Kingdom is just a bitter case, under the "Brandished Jade Axe", to submitted itself to the rule of Song Dynasty.
  大理国的此举是宋挥玉斧下，愿以行动表示向宋朝臣服的一个惨痛案例。