rifle

名词 rifle:

1. a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore

动词 rifle:

1. steal goods; take as spoils
   同义词：plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, ransack, pillage, foray
2. go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
   同义词：go

1. The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.
   一枝步枪瞄准著人质的头。
2. The hunter steadied his rifle and fired.
   猎人端稳了猎枪，然后开了火。
3. Get a rifle that shoots straight.
   找一杆射得准的步枪来。
4. Six tigers fell to his rifle.
   他用步枪射倒了六只老虎。
5. The soldier told us where the firing mechanism of a rifle is.
   那个士兵告诉我们哪儿是步枪的击发装置。
6. He was rifling through her desk in a desperate search for the letter.
   他拼命在她的书桌里搜寻那封信。
7. He was appointed captain of a company of rifles.
   他被任命为步枪连连长。

rifle

n.（名词）

A firearm with a rifled bore, designed to be fired from the shoulder.
来复枪：一种具有来复口径的火器，被设计从肩膀上开枪
An artillery piece or naval gun with such spiral grooves.
膛线炮：有这样的螺旋形槽线的大炮或海军大炮
rifles Troops armed with rifles.
rifles 步枪队：用来复枪武装的部队
v.tr.（及物动词）
ri.fled,ri.fling,ri.fles
To cut spiral grooves within (a gun barrel, for example).
制来复线：在（例如，炮筒）内刻螺旋形槽线

来源：
From rifle [to cut spiral grooves in]
源自 rifle [在…中刻螺旋形槽线]
from French rifler
源自 法语 rifler
from Old French [to plunder, scratch] * see rifle 2
源自 古法语 [劫掠，抓取] *参见 rifle2

rifle
rifle 2

v.（动词）
ri.fled,ri.fling,ri.fles
v.tr.（及物动词）
To search with intent to steal.
搜劫：带着偷窃的意图去搜寻
To ransack or plunder; pillage.
抢劫，掠夺：洗劫或劫掠；掠夺
To rob:
抢劫：
例句：
rifle a safe.
劫取保险箱

v.intr.（不及物动词）
To search vigorously:
到处搜寻：精力旺盛地搜寻：
例句：
rifling through my drawers to find matching socks.
为了找一双相配的袜子而搜遍了我的抽屉

来源：
Middle English riflen [to plunder]
中古英语 riflen [抢劫]
from Old French rifler
源自 古法语 rifler
[probably of Germanic origin]
[可能出自日耳曼语]

【引伸】
ri.fler
n.（名词）