dickens

英 ['dɪkɪnz] 美 ['dɪkɪnz]

• n. <口> 魔鬼；究竟
• Dickens
• n. 狄更斯（英国作家）

英英释义

Noun:

1. a word used in exclamations of confusion;

   "what the devil"
   "the deuce with it"
   "the dickens you say"
   

2. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Everybody was frantic as the dickens.
   每个人都像魔鬼一样癫狂。
2. Who the dickens is that?
   到底是谁？

用作名词 (n.)

1. Dickens is my favourite author.
   狄更斯是我最喜爱的作家。
2. His mother bought him a set of novels of Dickens.
   他母亲给他买了一套狄更斯的小说。

经典引文

• Everybody..was frantic as the dickens.

  出自： L. Armstrong

• Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator.

  出自： B. Bryson

近反义词

【近义词】

• devil 魔鬼
• Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯...
• deuce 两点