pen
noun /pen/
/pen/
Idioms - (often in compounds
常构成复合词 笔；钢笔 - an ink pen
墨水笔 - Let me grab a pen.
让我拿一支笔吧。 - to use pen and paper
使用纸和笔 - pen and ink
钢笔和墨水 - in pen a message written in red pen (= using a red pen)
用红笔写的信息 - from the pen of somebody (figurative) a new book from the pen of (= written by) Zadie Smith
査蒂·史密斯的新书
- His pen was poised, ready to sign his name.
他已准备好笔，随时可以签名。 - I grabbed a pen and began taking notes.
我抓起一支笔开始记笔记。 - My pen's run out.
我的笔没有墨水了。 - The President has yet to wield his veto pen to block a bill.
总统尚未大笔一挥否决一项法案的通过。 - This pen won't write.
这支钢笔不好使。 - pen and ink drawings
钢笔画
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ballpoint
- feather
- felt
- …
- use
- write (something) with
- grab
- …
- write
- run out
- be poised
- …
- nib
- cap
- ink
- …
- pen and ink
- an ink pen
- a small piece of land surrounded by a fence in which farm animals are kept
圈；围栏；畜栏 - a sheep pen
羊圈
- a sheep pen
- (North American English, informal) a penitentiary (= a prison)
钢笔： 监狱
词源noun sense 1 Middle English (originally denoting a feather with a sharpened quill): from Old French penne, from Latin penna ‘feather’ (in late Latin ‘pen’). noun sense 2 Old English penn, of unknown origin.
Idioms
the pen is mightier than the sword
- (saying) people who write books, poems, etc. have a greater effect on history and human affairs than soldiers and wars
笔诛胜于剑伐
put pen to paper
- to write or start to write something
写；动笔
a slip of the pen/tongue
- a small mistake in something that you write or say
笔误；口误 - Sorry, it was a slip of the pen—I meant to write ‘pheasants’, not ‘peasants’.
对不起，这是个笔误——我想写的是“野鸡”，不是“农民”。
- Sorry, it was a slip of the pen—I meant to write ‘pheasants’, not ‘peasants’.