ramrod
ramrod 英 ['ræmrɒd] 美 ['ræm'rɑd]
n. 推弹杆；死板的人 adj. 生硬的 vt. 迫使接受
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- n. 推弹杆；死板的人
- adj. 生硬的
- vt. 迫使接受
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1. But as she stepped out of the car, her ramrod posture and black earpiece suggested something was amiss.
但是当她从车里走出来的时候，那笔挺的站姿和她佩戴的黑色耳机看起来有点不一样。
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2. Our waiter has a big goose egg on his forehead and stands ramrod straight, heels together. "Sir!" our waiter says.
我们的服务生前额上顶着个巨包，后跟靠拢，站的笔直。
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3. by a grateful experience of ramrod military education; by compulsive achievement in the Boy Scout movement;
他接受过严格的军事教育，被迫加入童子军运动并取得了不俗的成绩；
- ramrod (n.) 1757, literally "a rod used in ramming" (the charge of a gun), from ram (v.) + rod. Used figuratively for straightness or stiffness from 1939, also figuratively for formality, primness (ramroddy is in Century Dictionary, 1902). The verb is 1948, from the noun. Related: Ramrodded; ramrodding.
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