whopper
英 [ˈwɒpə(r)]
美 [ˈwɑːpər]
n. 特大的(或硕大的)东西; 谎言; 瞎话
复数：whoppers
BNC.34866 / COCA.22738
牛津词典
noun
- 特大的（或硕大的）东西
something that is very big for its type- Pete has caught a whopper (= a large fish) .
皮特捕到了一条特大的鱼。
- Pete has caught a whopper (= a large fish) .
- 谎言；瞎话
a lie- She's told some whoppers about her past.
关于她的过去，她说了些谎话。
- She's told some whoppers about her past.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 弥天大谎
If you describe a lie as awhopper, you mean that it is very far from the truth.- ...the biggest whopper the president told.
总统撒的弥天大谎
- ...the biggest whopper the president told.
- N-COUNT 特别大的物体;庞然大物
If you refer to something as awhopper, you mean that it is an unusually large example of the thing mentioned.- As comets go, it is a whopper.
就彗星而言，它可是个庞然大物。
- As comets go, it is a whopper.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- What a whopper! That must be the biggest one we've seen this year.
好大啊！那肯定是我们今年看到的最大的一个了。 - Then came the whopper: on July 18, Bear Stearns admitted it could not figure out how much money it had lost.
噩耗随之传来：7月18日，贝尔斯登承认，它搞不清亏损究竟有多大。 - Whopper kept running all the way to the drugstore.
华勃一路跑到那家杂货店。 - The pharmacist says "wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom and brings back a whopper of a pill and plunks it on the counter.
药剂师说：“稍等。”他从储藏室搬出一个巨型药片，砰的一声把药片砸在柜台上。 - But whopper was afraid of it because he was a coward.
但是华勃因为胆子小，因此很怕它。 - But a few minutes later, whopper remembered his promise to george.
但是过了几分钟后，华勃想起对乔治的承诺。 - Whopper,@ she asked,@ where is my little boy now?
她问道：华勃，我的小宝贝在哪里？ - The fisherman had caught a whopper.
那个打鱼的捕到一条特大的鱼。 - But whopper kept playing his game.
但是华勃仍继续玩他的游戏。 - People called him whopper because@ a whopper@ is a big lie.
大家就称他为小骗子华勃。因为“华勃”就是大谎言的意思。