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machine gun

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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maˈchine gun noun [countable]  PMWa gun that fires a lot of bullets very quickly 机关枪 There came the sound of men shouting and a burst of machine gun fire. 传来人们的喊叫声和一阵机关枪扫射声。
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machine gunHe put several grenades in the coat pocket, and a machine gun into a long pocket inside the coat.This is about the rate of a standard teleprinter, or a Bren machine gun.His ship got shot down from three thousand feet over the pass by a fifty-caliber machine gun.Wounded men all round him tried to get up and retreat, but only brought eruptions of machine gun fire.Either the machine gun had been wiped out or the enemy had gotten smart.
maˈchine-gun verb (machine-gunned, machine-gunning) [transitive]  to shoot at someone or something with a machine gun 用机关枪射击 He was machine-gunned in an ambush. 在一次伏击中他被机关枪射中。→ See Verb table
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machine gun
maˈchine gun noun [countable]
a gun that fires a lot of bullets very quickly:
    There came the sound of men shouting and a burst of machine gun fire.


machine gunBrE /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/ 🔊NAmE /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/ 🔊 nouna gun that automatically fires many bullets one after the other very quickly 机关枪;机枪a burst/hail of machine-gun fire 一阵猛烈的机关枪扫射