Day34: 经济学人每日一词bay

bay

英 [beɪ] 美 [be]

■经济学人例句

① Bayingspectators jab them with sharp sticks,or yank and twist their tails.狂呼的观众用尖棒扎它们，或是拽拧它们的尾巴。

② He compared efforts to nullify the Supreme Court's desegregation orders to “a hound dog baying at the moon and claiming it's got the moon treed”.他将试图废止最高法院反隔离令的尝试比作“一条猎狗朝着月亮狂吠并称自己让月亮躲上了树”。

■释义

[verb] (Of a group of people)shout loudly,typically to demand something [动词]（一群人）大声呼喊，通常是为了要求某些东西

■解读

Bay做名词时是我们熟悉的“海湾”、房间中的“飘窗”，或者是“隔间”或是“隔舱”；然而做动词时，它就表示“犬吠狼嚎”，引申为人群“大声疾呼”，还真是十分生动呢。

■近义词

clamour,shout,call