1. | [c] 麻布（或厚纸、塑料等）大袋a large bag with no handles, made of strong rough material or strong paper or plastic, used for storing and carrying, for example flour, coal, etc. |
2. | [c] （厚纸的）购物袋a strong paper bag for carrying shopping |
3. | [c] 一满袋；一大袋东西the contents of a sack |
They got through a sack of potatoes. 他们把一麻袋土豆吃完了。 | |
two sacks of groceries 两袋食品杂货 |
4. | [sing] (informal) 开除；解雇；炒鱿鱼being told by your employer that you can no longer continue working for a company, etc., usually because of sth that you have done wrong |
He got the sack for swearing. 他因说脏话而被开除。 | |
Her work was so poor that she was given the sack . 她工作干得很差，被炒了鱿鱼。 | |
Four hundred workers face the sack. 四百名工人面临解雇的危险。 |
5. | [sing] (informal) 床a bed |
He caught them in the sack together. 他撞见他们俩一起睡在床上。 |
6. | [sing] （在攻陷的城镇中的）抢劫，劫掠the act of stealing or destroying property in a captured town |
the sack of Rome 对罗马城的洗劫 |
1. | (informal) ~ sb 解雇；炒鱿鱼to dismiss sb from a job |
She was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays. 她因拒绝在星期天上班被解雇了。 |
2. | ~ sth （尤指旧时军队等）破坏，劫掠(of an army, etc., especially in the past) to destroy things and steal property in a town or building |
Rome was sacked by the Goths in 410. 罗马在 410 年遭到哥特人的洗劫。 |
3. | ~ sb 擒杀（四分卫）to knock down the quarterback |
