资料来源 : pyDict
活跃的,浮华的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dash \Dash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dashing}.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat,
strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.]
1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike
violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of
the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon.
2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to
crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. --Ps. ii. 9.
A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. --Shak.
To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. --Milton.
3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to
depress. --South.
Dash the proud games?er in his gilded car. --Pope.
4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix,
reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an
inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter;
to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to
dash paint upon a picture.
I take care to dash the character with such
particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured
applications. --Addison.
The very source and fount of day Is dashed with
wandering isles of night. --Tennyson.
5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute
rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash
off a review or sermon.
6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with
out; as, to dash out a word.
Dashing \Dash"ing\, a.
Bold; spirited; showy.
The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the
listless. --T. Campbell.
资料来源 : WordNet®
dashing
adj 1: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: {gallant}]
2: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: {dapper}, {jaunty}, {natty},
{raffish}, {rakish}, {smart}, {spiffy}, {snappy}, {spruce}]