cant是什么意思？

cant

英[kænt] 美[kænt]

• n. 倾斜，（下层社会的）黑话，斜面，言不由衷的话；
• vi. 斜穿，使用黑话（或行话等），说言不由衷的话；
• vt. 使具有斜面，使倾斜，将…斜掷出去，猛扔；
• adj. 黑话的，有斜面的，斜穿的；

例句

• the cant of a bank 河岸的斜坡
• There has been a great deal of politician’s cant. 说了一大堆政客惯用的言不由衷的话。
• the cant of the surgeons 外科医生的术语
• He knows thieves’ cant. 他懂盗贼的黑话。
• A good heart cant's lie. 有仁心者不说谎话。
• I cant tell why this heart languishes in silence. 我不知道,为什麽这颗心在寂静中憔悴.
• Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers. “绵羊”是那时牢房里的黑话, 意思是由典狱长控制的密探.
• AIM Bots cant be warned, and can appear online to up to 10,000 buddies at once. AIM机器人不会接受警告, 并且能够向多达10,000个好友显示在线状态.
• The Prefect was fond of the cant of diplomacy. 这位警察局长很爱好外交辞令.
• Ellie: Manny, you cant pick favorites with your kids! 艾丽: 曼尼, 不能对孩子们挑三拣四!

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• （有关道德或宗教的）虚伪言辞，伪善的话，空话
  If you refer to moral or religious statements as cant, you are criticizing them because you think the person making them does not really believe what they are saying.
  例句
  ...politicians holding forth with their usual hypocritical cant. 政客们夸夸其谈,依旧是那些虚伪的大道理。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  (下层社会的)黑话,切口
  He knows thieves’ cant. 他懂盗贼的黑话。
  (同行业的)行话,术语
  the cant of the surgeons 外科医生的术语
  言不由衷的话,伪善的言词
  There has been a great deal of politician’s cant. 说了一大堆政客惯用的言不由衷的话。
  斜面;斜坡;斜边
  the cant of a bank 河岸的斜坡
  倾斜;倾覆
  The ship took on a dangerous cant to port. 船只出现向左舷危险倾斜。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
  2. a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
  3. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
  "they don't speak our lingo"
  4. insincere talk about religion or morals
  5. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
• Verb
  1. heel over;
  "The tower is tilting""The ceiling is slanting"

行业词典

• 体育： 投；掷；斜面；准星左右偏斜；
  医学： 斜面，斜角：倾斜或坡面；
  林学： 毛方；