Word · Frequency #1706
gun
用枪射击；开枪
To shoot with a gun.
- 1.
To shoot with a gun.
用枪射击。
- 2.
To cause to speed up.
加速。
- 3.
To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
试图攻击某人；瞄准某人；与“for”连用。
- 4.
To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
练习捕鸟或打猎小型猎物；主要用于分词形式:去打猎。
加速；猛踩油门；伺机攻击；瞄准；打猎；外出狩猎；用枪射击。；加速。
In use
The thief tried to escape, but the police officer gunned him down.
He gunned the car engine and sped away from the curb.
The soldiers were gunning for the enemy positions at dawn.
Verb forms
base gun · third person guns · -ing gunning · past gunned · past participle gunned
规则动词
Connections
Collocations
- gun down
- 开枪射倒；开枪打死
- The bank robber was gunned down by police.那名银行劫匪被警察开枪击毙。
- gun the engine
- 猛踩油门；把发动机转速突然加大
- He gunned the engine and the car shot forward.他猛踩油门，汽车猛地向前冲去。
- gun it
- 加速；猛踩油门
- Come on, gun it, or we'll be late!快点，加速，不然我们要迟到了！
- gun for
- 伺机攻击；蓄意找…的麻烦
- After the argument, she felt her rival was gunning for her.争吵之后，她觉得对手在伺机对她使坏。
Idioms & figurative uses
- jump the gun
- 过早行动；抢先行动The company jumped the gun by announcing the product before it was ready.这家公司在产品准备好之前就提前发布消息，操之过急了。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想开枪声“gun”一声：动词 gun 既指扣扳机射击，又像子弹出膛般猛踩油门加速，或瞄准目标伺机攻击。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：枪击事件报道、口语对话、狩猎活动 gun 作动词时，各义项的语域并不统一：表示“用枪射击”（尤其是 gun down）多用于新闻报道，语气偏正式；表示“加速”（如 gun the engine）和“伺机攻击”（gun for）多用于口语或非正式场合；“go gunning”带狩猎语境。整体按“混合”处理较稳妥。
Pronunciation & Spelling
以下单词都与 gun /ɡʌn/ 押韵（元音和结尾辅音为 /ʌn/）：bun, fun, run, stun, sun, ton。注意 ton 拼写是 -on，但发音相同。另外，gun 的拼写开头 gu 在 gum /ɡʌm/ 和 gut /ɡʌt/ 中相同，但这些词结尾不同，不押韵。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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