Cudgel

(noun.) a club that is used as a weapon.

(verb.) strike with a cudgel.

整理:李奥娜

• Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He was now too close upon me for the cudgel to prove of any effective assistance, so I merely threw it as heavily as I could at his advancing bulk. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I kept straight on, with my cudgel ready in my hand, my ears on the alert, and my eyes straining to see through the mist and the darkness. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I got on his back, with my cudgel in my mouth, seized the parapet with both hands, and was instantly on the roof. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is true I held the cudgel, but what could I do with it against his four great arms? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• This other, which was evidently its mate, soon came toward us, bearing a mighty stone cudgel with which it evidently intended to brain me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Cudgel your brains for an expedient. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands; And clowns come crowding on, with cudgels in their hands. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavor to find some explanation which would cover all these facts. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I cudgelled my brains to find some possible explanation. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

编辑:韦斯利