ringer
英 ['rɪŋə]
美 ['rɪŋɚ]
- n. 套环，投环；按铃者；敲钟者
- n. (Ringer)人名；(英、德、匈、瑞典)林格
ringer 冒名顶替非法参赛的马或人来自 ring,响铃，敲铃，-er,人。字面意思即敲铃人，来自过去赛马时一种以好马充次马赢得 比赛的作弊手段。后引申该词义。
- ringer (n.)
- early 15c., "one who rings" (a bell), agent noun from ring (v.1). In quoits (and by extension, horseshoes) from 1863, from ring (v.2). Especially in be a dead ringer for "resemble closely," 1891, from ringer, a fast horse entered fraudulently in a race in place of a slow one (the verb to ring in this sense is attested from 1812), possibly from British ring in "substitute, exchange," via ring the changes, "substitute counterfeit money for good," a pun on ring the changes in the sense of play the regular series of variations in a peal of bells (1610s). Meaning "expert" is first recorded 1918, Australian slang, from earlier meaning "man who shears the most sheep per day" (1871).
- 1. She's a dead ringer for a girl I used to know.
- 她酷似以前我认识的一个女孩.
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- 2. That man is a ringer for so - and - so.
- 那个人很像某人.
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- 3. Oh my God, your boyfriend dead ringer for Tom Cruise!
- 噢我的天哪, 你的男朋友长得特像汤姆?克鲁斯!
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- 4. Twenty - four animals were randomized into control, lactated Ringer's solution and HES groups.
- 方法:24只动物随机分为对照组 、 乳酸林格液组和hes组.
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- 5. That man is a dead ringer of Jay Chou.
- 那个人象极了周杰伦.
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