cudgel

英 [ˈkʌdʒl]

美 [ˈkʌdʒl]

n.  (用作武器的)短棒，粗短棍
v.  用短棒打

复数：cudgels　过去式：cudgelled　现在分词：cudgelling　过去分词：cudgelled　第三人称单数：cudgels　

TEM8

BNC.33412 / COCA.31492

习惯用语

n.

take up (the) cudgels on behalf of sb/sth
• 坚决保卫；毅然支持
  to defend or support sb/sth strongly

v.

cudgel your brains
• 冥思苦想；绞尽脑汁
  to think very hard

牛津词典

noun

• （用作武器的）短棒，粗短棍
  a short thick stick that is used as a weapon

verb

• 用短棒打
  to hit sb with a cudgel

柯林斯词典

• (用作武器的)粗短棍，短棒
  Acudgelis a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
• PHRASE 替…说话；支持;保卫
  If youtake up the cudgels forsomeone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
  1. The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
     工会极力支持被裁的367名员工。

英英释义

noun

• a club that is used as a weapon

verb

• strike with a cudgel
  Synonym:fustigate

双语例句

• If Changquan, Taijiquan, Nanquan, sword, knife, spear, cudgel and so on.
  如长拳、太极拳、南拳、剑术、刀术、枪术、棍术等。
• My boy always tells other people he is the Monkey King and shakes his "golden cudgel"( in fact, it's simply an ugly crabstick) on our living room's carpet.
  儿子经常说他就是孙悟空，不时拿着他的如意金箍棒（事实上只是一根丑陋的小木棍）在客厅那块大地毯上挥舞。
• Angell Echo Technology and Culture Media Company invites state first-class athlete Wang Cong to give you, cudgel play lovers, a professional cudgel play training.
  安琪艾可科技文化传媒诚邀中国国家一级运动员王聪，为喜欢棍术的您，亲自演练编排棍术教程。
• The portress had "done up" his room; only she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened by the fire.
  不过她已从灰里拾起那根棍子的两个铁斗和那烧乌了的值四十个苏的钱，干干净净地把它们放在桌上了。
• The reasons are: First, the members of the peasant associations are everywhere spread out over the hills and dales, spear or cudgel in hand, ready to go into action in their hundreds, so that the bandits have nowhere to hide.
  原因：一是农会会员漫山遍野，梭镖短棍一呼百应，土匪无处藏踪。
• He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his cudgel, which was lying on the ground.
  他用左手牵着珂赛特，用右手从地上拾起他的那根棍棒。
• Wushu is a traditional Chinese sport item. In its long-term development, broadsword^ cudgel, sword and spear have become main weapons.
  武术是中国传统的体育项目，在其长期发展过程中，刀、棍、剑、枪已成为武术运动中主要的器械之术。
• Thenardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the spot.
  德纳第望着那根粗壮无比的棍棒和那一片荒凉的地方。
• The man was of lofty stature, clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm.
  这人身材高大，穿一件长大衣，胳膊底下夹着一条短棍。
• In his left hand he carried a little bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a cudgel, cut from some hedge.
  他左手提着一个手结的毛巾小包袱，右手拿着一根木棍，好象是从什么树丛里砍来的。