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nounPlural mugs mʌɡməɡ 1A large cup, typically cylindrical with a handle and used without a saucer. （圆筒形有柄）大杯 she picked up her coffee mug Example sentencesExamples - Her hands were trembling slightly, the crystal pitcher tinkling against the pewter mug.
- Antonio pulled mugs from the cupboard, then handed me the cake plates.
- Then she hands us each a plastic travel mug full of coffee.
- I plunked the mugs on the table and sat across from my best friend.
- A visibly chastened man, holding a chipped mug of tea, Sven duly confirmed his Englishness.
- I watched quietly as he set the jug to boiling and retrieved two mugs from a cupboard under the bench.
- The waitress hustled back nearly out of breath and placed a large white mug on their table.
- When she tilts the mug to her lips, however, nothing comes out.
- Rose stood before you, holding out two mugs of steaming hot chocolate.
- The teacher lifted her empty coffee mug and headed to the door.
- Lan takes a sip from the mug in front of him, which contains weak coffee.
- Jack was cleaning pewter beer mugs behind the bar.
- "Thanks," I replied as he placed a steaming mug of black coffee in front of me.
- I smiled secretly to myself as I pulled out two mugs from the cupboard.
- One man sat alone, nursing his half-empty mug of beer.
- Gaston got up and handed her a mug of cider.
- Nathan carefully set his own mug in the sink before stalking toward the same door Benny had just entered.
- Crete looked back up to Stu's face and picked up his scorching hot mug of cocoa.
- Two pewter mugs banged down in front of us, spilling liquid.
- We all get big ceramic mugs of hot tea.
Synonyms beaker, cup tankard, glass, stein, flagon, pot, pint pot, toby jug dated seidel archaic stoup - 1.1 The contents of a mug.
一大杯的容量 Example sentencesExamples - I open the shop at exactly 8.30 every morning, Monday to Saturday, and I take the quiet time before customers arrive to enjoy a sweet mug of Assam tea.
- Anyway, Mula had a dilemma because her boyfriend Kwang-Li was at a nearby café enjoying a fresh mug of bubble tea with mastodon jelly.
- A mug of tea (the tea bag was still in) at £1.20 and a jug of fresh milk retrieved from an adjoining table rounded off my snack.
- Just had some muruku and a mug of lemon honey drink.
- I'm sitting on the floor at the entrance of Block A, shooting the breeze with a fellow detainee, and enjoying as much as I can, a mug of hot Lipton tea.
- The drops of falling water hypnotized me as I sipped a steaming mug of green tea.
- Time marches on, and nowadays I'm content with a mug of good hot coffee, and grateful for it.
- A mug of tea and a ham sandwich were very welcome.
- Yesterday, we met up with my family to go around the house that we are purchasing, enjoying a mug of tea with the couple that are selling to us.
- The man released him roughly and went to sit down again while Betty poured a mug of beer from a container at the back.
- I dumped the rest of the mug in the sink and rinsed it out.
- Even including off-the-track excursions we were usually at our destination, happily sipping a huge mug of beer in the square, by late afternoon.
- A greasy egg, streaky bacon, a thick slab of Lorne sausage and a wedge of fried bread, all washed down with a large mug of sweet tea can often be a true restorative.
- A few young people, dressed up as if to go out, were milling around the small town square, presumably with the intention of having a mug of cocoa and a hobnob before going to bed.
- Taking a long draught from his mug of ale, Colonel Paccar leaned back in his chair, and let his gaze wander over his four charges.
- First, drink two mugs full of Earl Gray tea that you've let steep for far too long.
- The young man was reading a paperback novel and sipping a steaming mug of hot, black coffee.
- Before leaving his home for Wigan at about 4.35 am on February 28, he had a mug of sweet tea and as he drove westward, he drank coffee from a flask.
- The warmth of the fire and mug of mead were lulling him to sleep.
- One aches for dirt, violence, drama - any kind of conflict at all - but the action's no more spicy than a mug of warm milk.
2informal A person's face. 〈非正式〉脸 I don't want to see Barry's ugly mug when I get home Example sentencesExamples - If photographers want to wait all day to take pictures of my ugly mug that's up to them.
- I didn't want his mug on the front page of my site.
- The terrorists haven't got the coverage to unmask their ugly mugs, because basically they are a bunch of cowards.
- It is kinda funny right now, as my ugly mug does adorn one page of a popular calendar.
- Obviously, the reason you keep seeing our four ugly mugs up here night after night is that the ratings are at such a level…
- Canada Post makes a stamp allowing you to stick your very own ugly mug on an envelope for just 54 more cents than a regular stamp.
- All they are interested in doing is getting their ugly mugs on the 6 o'clock news.
- What matters in America, is how well you stick your ugly mug on the television 24 hours a day.
- Stalin's grave is also nearby - a featureless slab of gray marble, with a bust of his ugly mug stuck on top.
- So now that you're familiar with our ugly mugs, let's begin!
- I just thought I wouldn't have to look at your ugly mug again for a while.
- Guys, you're not fooling anyone - I've seen your ugly mugs in the liner notes.
- They wore black robes similar to the Mors but they didn't have hoods to cover their ugly mugs.
- If you go flinging thousands of dots in the air that bear the smiling mug of your secret crush, well, he'll probably catch on.
- She asks to leave the room so she doesn't have to see his ugly mug and feigns drying tears with a handkerchief.
- I hope you'll be able to show some footage and not just our ugly mugs looking across the Atlantic at you.
- Jerry was the first one to get out and told them that with any luck, he wouldn't see either one of their ugly mugs until they had to report back.
- It seems nobody feels that they are guilty until a big, blown up shot of their ugly mug is thrust in front of them with the speed that the offender was doing shown on the snap.
- Over the last few days some of you may have been horrified to receive an envelope bearing my ugly mug from MAG.
- And for over a year, I had a great big picture of my ugly mug up at the top of the main index page.
Synonyms face, features, countenance, physiognomy informal clock British informal mush, phiz, phizog, dial British rhyming slang boat race Scottish & Irish informal coupon Northern Irish informal bake North American informal puss, pan literary visage archaic front 3British informal A stupid or gullible person. 〈英，非正式〉笨蛋；易受骗的人 they were no mugs where finance was concerned Example sentencesExamples - It's billed as the simple tale of an Australian political superhero and his valiant battles with assorted mugs, dummies, gutless spivs, clowns, fools and scumbags.
- Only we two mugs in the front got thrown out, still clutching our paddles.
- The title of this piece might seem to be no more than a comment on the ease with which the flats, mugs, suckers, punters, marks, gulls, or coneys could be relieved of their money.
- But if you work out how these people make their money, the answer is simple: from mugs who take the bait.
- It was amazin' how he'd fooled so many mugs round here over the years and in fact how few people actually knew his record.
Synonyms fool, simpleton, innocent, dupe, gull informal sucker, soft/easy touch, pushover, chump, noddle, dummy, dope, dimwit, dumbo, nerd, knucklehead, lamebrain, pea-brain, pudding-head, thickhead, wooden-head, pinhead, airhead, birdbrain British informal muggins, juggins, charlie North American informal patsy, sap, schlemiel, pigeon, mark Australian/New Zealand informal dill North American vulgar slang asshat 4US informal A hoodlum or thug. 〈美，非正式〉恶棍，流氓；暴徒 Example sentencesExamples - So went poor Jean Dexter, blonde and beautiful, choked and doped and drowned in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment by a couple of mugs in suits and leather gloves.
- You would hate to meet any of these mugs in a dark alley.
- This town is being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators.
- It's a dour game for thugs, mugs and businessmen.
verbmugs, mugging, mugged mʌɡməɡ 1with object Attack and rob (someone) in a public place. （在公共场所）对…行凶抢劫 he was mugged by three men who stole his bike 他遭三名男子袭击，自行车被抢走。 Example sentencesExamples - We are always reading about old people being mugged on the streets and in their own homes.
- During their three-day trip, two members of the delegation were mugged at gunpoint on the streets of Memphis.
- Two teenagers were mugged at knifepoint as they walked home after a night out in Trowbridge.
- "Anyone would think we were mugging old ladies," said a spokesman.
- Detectives say a number of thieves have tried - unsuccessfully - to mug undercover officers.
- Two thugs mugged a blind woman and threatened to kill her guide dog.
- Meanwhile, a woman suffered injuries to her arm and wrist after grappling with a robber who mugged her for her handbag in Bradford city centre.
- Her selfless act of bravery led to the conviction of two girls who had mugged a pensioner.
- A grieving pensioner was mugged by a violent thug on the way to her sister-in-law's funeral.
- A Swindon man was forced to hand over £100 when he was mugged in a public toilet.
- An evil pair of thugs mugged a blind man - then threw him into a canal.
- When he gets mugged by a gang of street punks and left beaten up in an alley, Goda's desire for a gun grows even more intense.
- A famous Japanese couple visiting as tourists get accosted and mugged on the streets of New York.
- Another young woman was mugged at knifepoint on the same day near Woodstock Road.
- I'd almost been mugged once, by several punks in a park.
- Aboud said that although businesses have security, shoppers were regularly being mugged on the city streets.
- A couple of nights ago, while I was walking from my car to my apartment, I was mugged and assaulted.
- You're always going out to meet with your hoodlum gang to rob a supermarket or mug some guy or something.
- If you mug an old lady you should get 20 years -- end of story.
- Burglary, forgery, mugging old ladies, you name it, I did it all.
Synonyms assault, attack, set upon, beat up, knock down, rob informal jump, rough up, lay into, work over, steam British informal duff up, do over North American informal stick up 2informal no object Make faces, especially silly or exaggerated ones, before an audience or a camera. （在观众、镜头前）扮鬼脸，作怪相 他在镜头前面扮鬼脸。 Example sentencesExamples - He mugs relentlessly for the camera, at one point sporting a bowtie pasta on his lip like a mustache.
- There's plenty of fun on set, too, as the cast and crew quickly take to mugging for Pellerin's camera crew.
- Porno actors do not mug for the camera; they maintain a fiction of authenticity.
- His wacky personality seems anything but morbid in the film, where he mugs for the camera and tells funny stories about his life.
- Barbara Harris as Blanche plays her role as camp, mugging for the camera and acting like a dingbat the whole way though.
- Watch Space Cowboys and you'll see Donald Sutherland mugging for the camera and stealing just about every scene that he's in.
- Connery seems to take every opportunity to mug for the camera.
- She sits at her cluttered desk in her study, exhaling smoke, tossing Budweisers, reading poems and mugging for the camera.
- He claims that he used to be a nerd, and he mugs for the camera in that doofy smiley way.
- Trey is a cop who moonlights as an actor and spends much of his time mugging for the cameras mounted inside the car he shares with Mitch.
- Every scene made me cringe as he mugged for the camera and offered those interminable witty retorts with that knowing gleam in his eye.
- The perfectly coifed doc on duty mugged coyly for the cameras as he explained the medical emergency.
- Moss' presence only serves to distract and irritate as he mugs for the camera and throws around unnecessary voice-overs describing his own actions.
- Georgina Beyer's partner became largely superfluous as she sang along, mugged at the camera and generally hammed it up.
- As for the video, I watched it once, it is 15 minutes of the band mugging for the camera.
- While he's wrestling a croc to the ground, he's mugging to the camera for all he's worth.
- Expect lots of silly dancing around and mugging to camera.
- In fact, the four whales often seem to be mugging for the cameras.
- Murphy mugs for the camera and basically plays himself.
- He flashes his trademark smile, all the while mugging to the camera as if every bug-eyed move were a thousand dollar check (and judging by the film's budget, I may not be far off).
Phrasesinformal An activity in which it is foolish to engage because it is likely to be unsuccessful or dangerous. 〈非正式〉不可能成功的傻事；危险的事情 playing with drugs is a mug's game 玩毒品是很危险的事情。 Example sentencesExamples - I know, I know, it's a mug's game to try to ‘improve’ on any script, especially this one, but I'm curious to see what you'll think.
- In truth, I declined the assignment because I knew that to write about men of power, in power, is a mug's game.
- Even when the World Trade Organisation is alleged to be in fine working order, its workings are incomprehensible - so trying to make sense of its malfunctions is probably a mug's game.
- Furthermore, these truths are knowable only a posteriori - armchair chemistry is a mug's game.
- Not because I'm any sort of market purist, but because I think corporate welfare is a mug's game, and because I hate the idea of giving money to wealthy foreigners.
- Passionate about the medium of radio, for a few years in the early '90s Ian worked in the field but soon came to the conclusion that radio is, by and large, a mug's game.
- Whether times make the politician, or individuals drive events, forecasting a wannabe PM's likely legacy is a mug's game.
- The construction industry slump of the early 1990s taught him that competitive tendering for construction and civil engineering projects is a mug's game.
- I've given a lot of money to sick animals in my time, mostly those running at Newmarket, but gambling isn't always a mug's game - sometimes it can put you on the road to riches.
- Debating the defects of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is, in many respects, a mug's game.
- But investing is a long-term business, and trying to second-guess short-term swings is a mug's game.
- It is a mug's game, designed to lock in a permanent pattern of economic subjugation and exploitation - and faced with this, refusing to play any more is a perfectly rational solution.
- ‘But trying to second-guess Philip Green is a mug's game,’ he said.
- On this one, it's monumentally easy to see in advance that arguing about what happened in that contest is a mug's game.
- The election is so near, and the polls so close, that it's now a mug's game to predict the outcome with anything approaching confidence, let alone certainty.
- Amanda said: ‘Drugs are a mug's game and Andrew felt the only way of staying clean was to move out of Selby.’
- Arguing in this fashion that capitalism doesn't ‘deliver the goods’ is a mug's game.
- Gambling is a mug's game (but investing in gaming businesses can be lucrative)!
- Any reader of this review will agree that if writing about music is hard, writing about writing about music is really a mug's game.
- Predictions are a mug's game, and everybody knows it.
OriginEarly 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting an earthenware bowl): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian mugge, Swedish mugg 'pitcher with a handle'. A mug was first of all a measure of salt, then a large earthenware vessel or bowl. In the 18th century drinking mugs commonly represented a grotesque human face. This may be the origin of mug in the sense ‘a face’, which in turn probably gave rise to mug as an insult for a stupid or gullible person, from their blank or unintelligent expression. In 19th-century slang mug was particularly a term for someone who has been duped by a card sharp or confidence trickster—this is behind a mug's game. People were robbed and attacked in public places before the 1860s, but before then the words mug and mugger would not have been used. They go back to the ‘face’ sense: to mug was originally a boxing term meaning ‘to punch an opponent in the face’ or ‘a blow to the face’.
Rhymesbug, chug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug verbmugs, mugging, mugged mʌɡməɡ [with object]mug something upBritish informal Learn or revise a subject as far as possible in a short time. 〈英，非正式〉（在短时间内尽可能多地）学习（或补习），苦学苦记；攻读 I'm constantly having to mug up things ahead of teaching them 我经常不得不在上课前攻读要讲授的东西。 no object we had mugged up on all things Venetian before the start of the course 我们在开课前就攻读过所有与威尼斯文化有关的知识。 Example sentencesExamples - Mugging up on money matters might sound boring, but being financially savvy will save you thousands of pounds during your lifetime.
- Some time back in school mugging up on the re-instated Scottish system would perhaps help to instill in them a little overdue modesty as well.
- One has the impression that Greenfield was informed she would be asked about this period in Freud's early psychoanalytic career, so she mugged it up from a psychoanalytic source and regurgitated it as best she could.
- Education was more a case of ‘reproduction rather than application’, with everyone trying to ‘mug it up’, because what mattered was the not the ability to understand the subject, but to ‘write it down’.
- It is the duty of any professional musician to mug up on all aspects of the subject.
Synonyms study, get up, read up, cram informal bone up (on) British informal swot archaic con
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. nounməɡməɡ 1A large cup, typically cylindrical with a handle and used without a saucer. （圆筒形有柄）大杯 Example sentencesExamples - The waitress hustled back nearly out of breath and placed a large white mug on their table.
- Antonio pulled mugs from the cupboard, then handed me the cake plates.
- Lan takes a sip from the mug in front of him, which contains weak coffee.
- When she tilts the mug to her lips, however, nothing comes out.
- Two pewter mugs banged down in front of us, spilling liquid.
- Gaston got up and handed her a mug of cider.
- Jack was cleaning pewter beer mugs behind the bar.
- We all get big ceramic mugs of hot tea.
- Rose stood before you, holding out two mugs of steaming hot chocolate.
- Then she hands us each a plastic travel mug full of coffee.
- I smiled secretly to myself as I pulled out two mugs from the cupboard.
- I watched quietly as he set the jug to boiling and retrieved two mugs from a cupboard under the bench.
- One man sat alone, nursing his half-empty mug of beer.
- "Thanks," I replied as he placed a steaming mug of black coffee in front of me.
- The teacher lifted her empty coffee mug and headed to the door.
- Nathan carefully set his own mug in the sink before stalking toward the same door Benny had just entered.
- A visibly chastened man, holding a chipped mug of tea, Sven duly confirmed his Englishness.
- I plunked the mugs on the table and sat across from my best friend.
- Crete looked back up to Stu's face and picked up his scorching hot mug of cocoa.
- Her hands were trembling slightly, the crystal pitcher tinkling against the pewter mug.
- 1.1 The contents of a mug.
一大杯的容量 a large mug of tea vanished in a single gulp 一大杯茶被一饮而尽。 Example sentencesExamples - The warmth of the fire and mug of mead were lulling him to sleep.
- Just had some muruku and a mug of lemon honey drink.
- Anyway, Mula had a dilemma because her boyfriend Kwang-Li was at a nearby café enjoying a fresh mug of bubble tea with mastodon jelly.
- I'm sitting on the floor at the entrance of Block A, shooting the breeze with a fellow detainee, and enjoying as much as I can, a mug of hot Lipton tea.
- Yesterday, we met up with my family to go around the house that we are purchasing, enjoying a mug of tea with the couple that are selling to us.
- First, drink two mugs full of Earl Gray tea that you've let steep for far too long.
- A mug of tea and a ham sandwich were very welcome.
- Before leaving his home for Wigan at about 4.35 am on February 28, he had a mug of sweet tea and as he drove westward, he drank coffee from a flask.
- Taking a long draught from his mug of ale, Colonel Paccar leaned back in his chair, and let his gaze wander over his four charges.
- A mug of tea (the tea bag was still in) at £1.20 and a jug of fresh milk retrieved from an adjoining table rounded off my snack.
- A few young people, dressed up as if to go out, were milling around the small town square, presumably with the intention of having a mug of cocoa and a hobnob before going to bed.
- The drops of falling water hypnotized me as I sipped a steaming mug of green tea.
- I open the shop at exactly 8.30 every morning, Monday to Saturday, and I take the quiet time before customers arrive to enjoy a sweet mug of Assam tea.
- I dumped the rest of the mug in the sink and rinsed it out.
- Time marches on, and nowadays I'm content with a mug of good hot coffee, and grateful for it.
- A greasy egg, streaky bacon, a thick slab of Lorne sausage and a wedge of fried bread, all washed down with a large mug of sweet tea can often be a true restorative.
- One aches for dirt, violence, drama - any kind of conflict at all - but the action's no more spicy than a mug of warm milk.
- Even including off-the-track excursions we were usually at our destination, happily sipping a huge mug of beer in the square, by late afternoon.
- The young man was reading a paperback novel and sipping a steaming mug of hot, black coffee.
- The man released him roughly and went to sit down again while Betty poured a mug of beer from a container at the back.
2informal A person's face. 〈非正式〉脸 Example sentencesExamples - I just thought I wouldn't have to look at your ugly mug again for a while.
- If you go flinging thousands of dots in the air that bear the smiling mug of your secret crush, well, he'll probably catch on.
- And for over a year, I had a great big picture of my ugly mug up at the top of the main index page.
- It seems nobody feels that they are guilty until a big, blown up shot of their ugly mug is thrust in front of them with the speed that the offender was doing shown on the snap.
- It is kinda funny right now, as my ugly mug does adorn one page of a popular calendar.
- Canada Post makes a stamp allowing you to stick your very own ugly mug on an envelope for just 54 more cents than a regular stamp.
- Over the last few days some of you may have been horrified to receive an envelope bearing my ugly mug from MAG.
- She asks to leave the room so she doesn't have to see his ugly mug and feigns drying tears with a handkerchief.
- Guys, you're not fooling anyone - I've seen your ugly mugs in the liner notes.
- I hope you'll be able to show some footage and not just our ugly mugs looking across the Atlantic at you.
- They wore black robes similar to the Mors but they didn't have hoods to cover their ugly mugs.
- Stalin's grave is also nearby - a featureless slab of gray marble, with a bust of his ugly mug stuck on top.
- So now that you're familiar with our ugly mugs, let's begin!
- All they are interested in doing is getting their ugly mugs on the 6 o'clock news.
- What matters in America, is how well you stick your ugly mug on the television 24 hours a day.
- I didn't want his mug on the front page of my site.
- Obviously, the reason you keep seeing our four ugly mugs up here night after night is that the ratings are at such a level…
- The terrorists haven't got the coverage to unmask their ugly mugs, because basically they are a bunch of cowards.
- Jerry was the first one to get out and told them that with any luck, he wouldn't see either one of their ugly mugs until they had to report back.
- If photographers want to wait all day to take pictures of my ugly mug that's up to them.
Synonyms face, features, countenance, physiognomy 3British informal A stupid or gullible person. 〈英，非正式〉笨蛋；易受骗的人 Example sentencesExamples - The title of this piece might seem to be no more than a comment on the ease with which the flats, mugs, suckers, punters, marks, gulls, or coneys could be relieved of their money.
- But if you work out how these people make their money, the answer is simple: from mugs who take the bait.
- It was amazin' how he'd fooled so many mugs round here over the years and in fact how few people actually knew his record.
- It's billed as the simple tale of an Australian political superhero and his valiant battles with assorted mugs, dummies, gutless spivs, clowns, fools and scumbags.
- Only we two mugs in the front got thrown out, still clutching our paddles.
Synonyms fool, simpleton, innocent, dupe, gull 4US informal A hoodlum or thug. 〈美，非正式〉恶棍，流氓；暴徒 Example sentencesExamples - You would hate to meet any of these mugs in a dark alley.
- So went poor Jean Dexter, blonde and beautiful, choked and doped and drowned in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment by a couple of mugs in suits and leather gloves.
- This town is being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators.
- It's a dour game for thugs, mugs and businessmen.
verbməɡməɡ 1with object Attack and rob (someone) in a public place. （在公共场所）对…行凶抢劫 he was mugged by three men who stole his bike 他遭三名男子袭击，自行车被抢走。 Example sentencesExamples - We are always reading about old people being mugged on the streets and in their own homes.
- Two thugs mugged a blind woman and threatened to kill her guide dog.
- Detectives say a number of thieves have tried - unsuccessfully - to mug undercover officers.
- During their three-day trip, two members of the delegation were mugged at gunpoint on the streets of Memphis.
- Two teenagers were mugged at knifepoint as they walked home after a night out in Trowbridge.
- "Anyone would think we were mugging old ladies," said a spokesman.
- A famous Japanese couple visiting as tourists get accosted and mugged on the streets of New York.
- A Swindon man was forced to hand over £100 when he was mugged in a public toilet.
- Her selfless act of bravery led to the conviction of two girls who had mugged a pensioner.
- You're always going out to meet with your hoodlum gang to rob a supermarket or mug some guy or something.
- Meanwhile, a woman suffered injuries to her arm and wrist after grappling with a robber who mugged her for her handbag in Bradford city centre.
- A couple of nights ago, while I was walking from my car to my apartment, I was mugged and assaulted.
- I'd almost been mugged once, by several punks in a park.
- Another young woman was mugged at knifepoint on the same day near Woodstock Road.
- Burglary, forgery, mugging old ladies, you name it, I did it all.
- An evil pair of thugs mugged a blind man - then threw him into a canal.
- A grieving pensioner was mugged by a violent thug on the way to her sister-in-law's funeral.
- If you mug an old lady you should get 20 years -- end of story.
- Aboud said that although businesses have security, shoppers were regularly being mugged on the city streets.
- When he gets mugged by a gang of street punks and left beaten up in an alley, Goda's desire for a gun grows even more intense.
Synonyms assault, attack, set upon, beat up, knock down, rob 2informal no object Make faces, especially silly or exaggerated ones, before an audience or a camera. （在观众、镜头前）扮鬼脸，作怪相 他在镜头前面扮鬼脸。 Example sentencesExamples - His wacky personality seems anything but morbid in the film, where he mugs for the camera and tells funny stories about his life.
- Barbara Harris as Blanche plays her role as camp, mugging for the camera and acting like a dingbat the whole way though.
- Georgina Beyer's partner became largely superfluous as she sang along, mugged at the camera and generally hammed it up.
- While he's wrestling a croc to the ground, he's mugging to the camera for all he's worth.
- He mugs relentlessly for the camera, at one point sporting a bowtie pasta on his lip like a mustache.
- As for the video, I watched it once, it is 15 minutes of the band mugging for the camera.
- Porno actors do not mug for the camera; they maintain a fiction of authenticity.
- He claims that he used to be a nerd, and he mugs for the camera in that doofy smiley way.
- In fact, the four whales often seem to be mugging for the cameras.
- Expect lots of silly dancing around and mugging to camera.
- Trey is a cop who moonlights as an actor and spends much of his time mugging for the cameras mounted inside the car he shares with Mitch.
- Murphy mugs for the camera and basically plays himself.
- Every scene made me cringe as he mugged for the camera and offered those interminable witty retorts with that knowing gleam in his eye.
- The perfectly coifed doc on duty mugged coyly for the cameras as he explained the medical emergency.
- Moss' presence only serves to distract and irritate as he mugs for the camera and throws around unnecessary voice-overs describing his own actions.
- Connery seems to take every opportunity to mug for the camera.
- There's plenty of fun on set, too, as the cast and crew quickly take to mugging for Pellerin's camera crew.
- Watch Space Cowboys and you'll see Donald Sutherland mugging for the camera and stealing just about every scene that he's in.
- He flashes his trademark smile, all the while mugging to the camera as if every bug-eyed move were a thousand dollar check (and judging by the film's budget, I may not be far off).
- She sits at her cluttered desk in her study, exhaling smoke, tossing Budweisers, reading poems and mugging for the camera.
Phrasesinformal An activity in which it is foolish to engage because it is likely to be unsuccessful or dangerous. 〈非正式〉不可能成功的傻事；危险的事情 playing with drugs is a mug's game 玩毒品是很危险的事情。 Example sentencesExamples - Amanda said: ‘Drugs are a mug's game and Andrew felt the only way of staying clean was to move out of Selby.’
- Whether times make the politician, or individuals drive events, forecasting a wannabe PM's likely legacy is a mug's game.
- Not because I'm any sort of market purist, but because I think corporate welfare is a mug's game, and because I hate the idea of giving money to wealthy foreigners.
- The election is so near, and the polls so close, that it's now a mug's game to predict the outcome with anything approaching confidence, let alone certainty.
- Even when the World Trade Organisation is alleged to be in fine working order, its workings are incomprehensible - so trying to make sense of its malfunctions is probably a mug's game.
- Gambling is a mug's game (but investing in gaming businesses can be lucrative)!
- Predictions are a mug's game, and everybody knows it.
- ‘But trying to second-guess Philip Green is a mug's game,’ he said.
- I know, I know, it's a mug's game to try to ‘improve’ on any script, especially this one, but I'm curious to see what you'll think.
- I've given a lot of money to sick animals in my time, mostly those running at Newmarket, but gambling isn't always a mug's game - sometimes it can put you on the road to riches.
- Any reader of this review will agree that if writing about music is hard, writing about writing about music is really a mug's game.
- Debating the defects of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is, in many respects, a mug's game.
- It is a mug's game, designed to lock in a permanent pattern of economic subjugation and exploitation - and faced with this, refusing to play any more is a perfectly rational solution.
- But investing is a long-term business, and trying to second-guess short-term swings is a mug's game.
- Passionate about the medium of radio, for a few years in the early '90s Ian worked in the field but soon came to the conclusion that radio is, by and large, a mug's game.
- Furthermore, these truths are knowable only a posteriori - armchair chemistry is a mug's game.
- Arguing in this fashion that capitalism doesn't ‘deliver the goods’ is a mug's game.
- The construction industry slump of the early 1990s taught him that competitive tendering for construction and civil engineering projects is a mug's game.
- On this one, it's monumentally easy to see in advance that arguing about what happened in that contest is a mug's game.
- In truth, I declined the assignment because I knew that to write about men of power, in power, is a mug's game.
OriginEarly 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting an earthenware bowl): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian mugge, Swedish mugg ‘pitcher with a handle’. verbməɡməɡ [with object]mug something upBritish informal Learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram. 〈英，非正式〉（在短时间内尽可能多地）学习（或补习），苦学苦记；攻读 I'm constantly having to mug up things ahead of teaching them 我经常不得不在上课前攻读要讲授的东西。 no object we had mugged up on all things Venetian before the start of the course 我们在开课前就攻读过所有与威尼斯文化有关的知识。 Example sentencesExamples - It is the duty of any professional musician to mug up on all aspects of the subject.
- One has the impression that Greenfield was informed she would be asked about this period in Freud's early psychoanalytic career, so she mugged it up from a psychoanalytic source and regurgitated it as best she could.
- Some time back in school mugging up on the re-instated Scottish system would perhaps help to instill in them a little overdue modesty as well.
- Mugging up on money matters might sound boring, but being financially savvy will save you thousands of pounds during your lifetime.
- Education was more a case of ‘reproduction rather than application’, with everyone trying to ‘mug it up’, because what mattered was the not the ability to understand the subject, but to ‘write it down’.
Synonyms study, get up, read up, cram
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. |