type of boring tool, mid-14c., gymbelette, from Anglo-French and Old French guimbelet, guibelet (12c., Modern French gibelet), which is probably of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn (with substitute of French diminutive suffix), diminutive of wimmel "auger, drill." Middle English also had wimble in the same sense (mid-13c.), probably from an Old North French form of the same word. As the name of a cocktail made with gin or vodka and lime juice, by 1928, presumably from its "penetrating" effects on the drinker.
雙語例句
1. "Have you read the whole book?" she asks, gimlet-eyed.
“整本書你都讀完了嗎？”她目光敏銳地問道。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Tu Wei - yueh's face was dark now , and his gimlet eyes bored into Mo Kan - cheng's.
屠維岳 鐵青著臉, 尖利的眼光逼住了莫干 丞.
來自子夜部分
3. His glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing.
他的目光是一把鋼錐,寒光刺人心脾.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. This gimlet bores well.
這把錐鋒利.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. In person, he has the air of a philosophy professor rather than a gimlet － eyed financier.