type of boring tool, mid-14c., gymbelette, from Anglo-French and Old French guimbelet, guibelet (12c., Modern French gibelet), which is probably of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn (with substitute of French diminutive suffix), diminutive of wimmel "auger, drill." Middle English also had wimble in the same sense (mid-13c.), probably from an Old North French form of the same word. As the name of a cocktail made with gin or vodka and lime juice, by 1928, presumably from its "penetrating" effects on the drinker.
双语例句
1. "Have you read the whole book?" she asks, gimlet-eyed.
“整本书你都读完了吗？”她目光敏锐地问道。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Tu Wei - yueh's face was dark now , and his gimlet eyes bored into Mo Kan - cheng's.
屠维岳 铁青着脸, 尖利的眼光逼住了莫干 丞.
来自子夜部分
3. His glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing.
他的目光是一把钢锥,寒光刺人心脾.
来自互联网
4. This gimlet bores well.
这把锥锋利.
来自互联网
5. In person, he has the air of a philosophy professor rather than a gimlet － eyed financier.
