cocked hat

英 [ˌkɒkt ˈhæt]

美 [ˌkɑːkt ˈhæt]

n.  (与某些制服配套的)三角帽

习惯用语

n.

knock sb/sth into a cocked hat
• 远远胜过某人（或事物）；大大超过；使相形见绌
  to be very much better than sb/sth

柯林斯词典

• (与某些制服配套的)三角帽
  Acocked hatis a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
• PHRASE (在质量或重要性上)远远胜过
  If you say that one thingknocksanother thinginto a cocked hat, you mean that it is much better or much more significant than the other thing.
  1. This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
     这一设计令其他作品相形见绌。

英英释义

noun

• hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points

双语例句

• A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat.
  遇上真正行家我的工作就相形见绌了。
• Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair, and the cocked hat on the table.
  奥立弗鞠了一躬，这一番礼仪半是对着坐在椅子上的教区干事，半是对着桌上的三角帽。
• Cocked hat; hat with the brim turned up on three sides ditrigonal scalenohedral class
  三角帽（帽檐三面卷起的）.复三方偏三角面体类
• The loss of his job knocked his plans into a cocked hat.
  由于失业他的计划统统化为泡影。
• It all grew out of a cocked hat, for one evening the Professor came in to give Jo her lesson with a paper soldier cap on his head, which Tina had put there and he had forgotten to take off.
  这事起因于一顶三角帽。一个晚上，教授进屋来给乔上课，头上戴着顶纸做的士兵帽，是蒂娜放上去的，他忘了拿下来。
• It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order.
  那个戴着三角帽、妄自尊大的人是费了许多力气才把秩序维持下去。
• The two boys have been fighting and one of them is knocked into a cocked hat.
  两个孩子打架，其中一个被打败了。
• I have good LPs of the Beethoven symphonies but the new CD recordings knock them into a cocked hat.
  我有几张很好的贝多芬交响乐密纹唱片，但新的激光唱片的效果更棒。
• This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
  这一设计令其他作品相形见绌。
• You may be only an amateur painter, but your pictures can knock mine into a cocked hat.
  虽然你只是个业余画家，可你的画却远胜于我的。