point-blank
adjective /ˌpɔɪnt ˈblæŋk/
/ˌpɔɪnt ˈblæŋk/
[only before noun]- (of a shot
) fired with the gun touching or very close to the person or thing it is aimed at射击 挨着的;近身的;近距离的 - The officer was shot dead at point-blank range.
这位军官被近距离开枪打死。
- The officer was shot dead at point-blank range.
- (of something that is said
) very definite and direct and not very polite说的话 synonym blunt直截了当(缺乏礼貌)的 - a point-blank refusal
断然拒绝
- a point-blank refusal
词源late 16th cent.: probably from point + blank in the contemporaneous sense ‘white spot in the centre of a target’.