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词组 shoot down
释义 shoot down
  1. shoot sb/sth down • shoot down sb/sth to make an enemy plane and the people in it crash to the ground, by firing bullets or weapons at it:
   ▪ American war planes shot down an Iraqi jet inside the no-fly zone.
   ▪ In 1983 a Korean airliner was shot down over the Soviet Union after straying near a top secret submarine base.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑bring down
    shootdown n C usually singular especially AmE when an enemy plane is made to crash to the ground, by firing bullets or weapons at it:
   ▪ There will be an international investigation into last weekend's shootdown of the two planes.
  2. shoot down sb • shoot sb down to kill or seriously injure someone by shooting them, especially people who cannot defend themselves:
   ▪ The army were accused of shooting down unarmed demonstrators.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑gun down, ↑shoot
  3. shoot sth/sb down • shoot down sth/sb informal to say or show that someone's ideas or opinions are wrong or stupid:
   ▪ America Online shot down rumours of a merger between the two companies.
   shoot sth/sb down in flames (=completely destroy someone's ideas by showing that they are wrong or stupid)
   ▪ The article was shot down in flames by government scientists.
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