cudgel
n. 棍棒
vt. 用棍棒打
A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
工會極力支援被裁的367名員工。
1. a club that is used as a weapon
1. strike with a cudgel
cudgel one's brain ( 或 brains)
絞盡腦汁;苦苦思索
take up the cudgels
奮起維護;捍衛
When using loudspeakers, be sure to use your discretion . You can't teach others with a cudgel.
使用高音喇叭, 千萬要見機行事, 不能授人以柄.
The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand.
那個穿黃大衣的人,手裡捏著他的棍子和包袱.
All of a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel.
那個鬼突然給他吃了一棍.
I have been cudgel my brains for detainment you. However, everything is holdthe sun.
我曾絞盡腦汁想挽留住你, 可惜這一切只是徒勞.
After the doctor knows, cudgel one's brains for recalled a way eventually.
醫生知道後, 絞盡腦汁終於想出了個辦法.