sobriquet

英 [ˈsəʊbrɪkeɪ]

美 [ˈsoʊbrɪkeɪ]

n.  绰号; 外号

复数：sobriquets　

BNC.36162 / COCA.29557

牛津词典

noun

• 绰号；外号
  an informal name or title that you give sb/sth

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 假名;绰号;诨名
  Asobriquetis a humorous name that people give someone or something.
  1. From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'.
     他的员工给他起了个“咕哝虫”的绰号。

英英释义

noun

• a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
  1. Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
  2. Henry's nickname was Slim
  Synonym:nicknamemonikercognomensoubriquetbyname

双语例句

• The semiconductor companies who earned the San Francisco peninsula its Silicon Valley sobriquet are set to be displaced in their consumption of that core material by a new high-technology industry.
  一个新的高科技行业将在关键原料的消费方面，超越那些为旧金山半岛赢得硅谷称号的半导体企业。
• For a moment, forget that this is coming from an HR guy ( I hate this sobriquet). Instead, look at the root of the problems.
  此刻，让我们暂且不提这篇文章是出自人力资源部某个家伙（我讨厌这个称呼）之手，来看一看问题的根源吧。
• From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'.
  他的员工给他起了个“咕哝虫”的绰号。
• The dashes looked like ants in a column; thus, this effect earned the colorful sobriquet marching ants.
  虚线看上去就像一队蚂蚁，因此这种效果赢得一个形象绰号，即行进中的蚂蚁。
• Some influences did creep in: witness the club jackets, boots, Afghan trousers and multi-strand belted dhoti that seemed destined to earn the sobriquet Kabul chic.
  这里面确实悄悄渗入了一些影响：看看夜总会夹克、长靴、阿富汗长裤和多股缠绕的腰带，这些似乎注定要赢得喀布尔时尚的诨名。
• The team acquired the sobriquet Jail Blazers.
  球队得到一个新绰号“监狱者”。
• India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.
  印度计划封存它主要的米格-21喷气式战机，由于该装备令人沮丧的安全记录，它已经获得了“飞行棺材”的绰号。
• He spent 33 years at Ford, where he became president and chief executive officer, and was renowned both for his abrasive style and ruthless attitude to cost-cutting, earning him the sobriquet of Jac the Knife.
  他曾在福特效力33年，最终担任福特总裁兼首席执行官，以粗放的风格和对成本削减的无情态度而著称，由此获得雅克利刃（JactheKnife）的绰号。