sledgehammer
英 [ˈsledʒhæmə(r)]
美 [ˈsledʒhæmər]
n. (有长柄的)大锤
复数：sledgehammers 第三人称单数：sledgehammers 现在分词：sledgehammering 过去式：sledgehammered 过去分词：sledgehammered
BNC.22246 / COCA.19255
习惯用语
n.
- use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
- 抡着大锤砸核桃；杀鸡用牛刀
to use more force than is necessary
牛津词典
noun
- （有长柄的）大锤
a large heavy hammer with a long handle
柯林斯词典
- (用于击碎岩石和混凝土的)大锤
Asledgehammeris a large, heavy hammer with a long handle, used for breaking up rocks and concrete. - 杀鸡用牛刀
If you say that someone is usinga sledgehammer to crack a nut, you mean that they are using stronger measures than are really necessary to solve a problem.
英英释义
noun
verb
- beat with a sledgehammer
双语例句
- She picked up the sledgehammer and began banging away with enthusiasm.
她拿起大锤便用力敲打起来。 - Driving a nail with a sledgehammer isn't very effective.
用一把大锤去拔个钉子很费劲吧。 - She gave one a sledgehammer and a large chisel, one a hammer and smaller chisel, and the other an electric saw.
她递给一个观众一把大锤和一把大凿子，又递给另一个观众一把小锤和一把小凿子，再递给第三个观众一把电锯。 - When Zhang Ruimin took over Haier, a Chinese white-goods company, in1984, he smashed one of the company's products to pieces with a sledgehammer to show what he thought of its quality.
1984年张瑞敏接管海尔&一家中国白色家电（指冰箱，洗衣机等）公司。当时他用一把大锤把该公司出产的一件电器敲得粉碎，为了表示他认为质量很差。 - The conjurer threw the watch into the mortar and grasped a sledgehammer from the table.
魔术师把表扔进臼里，从桌子上拿起一把大锤。 - A two-handed sledgehammer; a two-handed crosscut saw; a machine designed for bimanual operation.
两手用的锤；两手用的锯；计划两手操作的机器。 - The impact of a sledgehammer on pilings;
长柄大铁锤砸木桩的碰撞； - He took rather a sledgehammer approach to the whole thing.
他对整件事采取的是大锤敲胡桃的方法。 - I was holding a large crowbar, and my co-worker was holding a sledgehammer.
我拿着一根很大的撬棍，我的同事拿着一把大锤。 - Indeed, a proposed new system for finding miners trapped by an underground collapse is activated simply by hammering on an iron plate with a sledgehammer.
更确切地说，新提出的一套用于营救地下被困矿工的系统，仅仅是在铁板旁边加一个铁锤。