1. 诈骗:nobbily 华丽地 | nobble 诈骗 | nobbut 只是
2. (暗中破坏)使其不能取胜,诈骗:80.falklands马岛 | 81.nobble(暗中破坏)使其不能取胜,诈骗 | 82.slip it这里指下药
1. 收买,贿赂,恐吓(委员会等)
If someone nobbles an important group of people such as a committee, they offer them money or threaten them in order to make them do something.
e.g. The trial was stopped before Christmas after allegations of attempts to nobble the jury...
企图收买陪审团的指控传出后,审判在圣诞节前中止了。
e.g. Sir Gerald had been nobbled.
杰拉尔德爵士已经被收买了。
2. (赛马前用药物等)害(马)使其不能取胜
If someone nobbles a racehorse, they deliberately harm it, often using drugs, in order to prevent it from winning a race.
e.g. ...the drug used to nobble two horses at Doncaster.
在唐克斯特用来阻止两匹马取胜的药物
3. 阻止,阻挠(实现愿望)
If someone nobbles your plans or chances of succeeding, they prevent you from achieving what you want.
e.g. His opportunity to re-establish himself had been nobbled by the manager''s tactics.
他重新树立自己地位的机会因教练的战术而流产了。
verb
1. disable by drugging
e.g. nobble the race horses
2. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
e.g. The industrialist''s son was kidnapped
3. make off with belongings of others
Synonym: pilfercabbagepurloinpinchabstractsnarfswipehooksneakfilchlift
4. deprive of by deceit
e.g. He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Synonym: victimizeswindlerookgoldbrickdiddlebuncodefraudscammulctgypgiphornswoggleshort-changecon