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单词 sitting duck
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Definition of sitting duck in English:

sitting duck

(also sitting target)
noun
informal
  • A person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.

    〈非正式〉易受攻击者;容易上钩者;易被击中的目标

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But nobody wants to be a sitting target, either.
    • The problem is that a lot of visitors enjoy sedentary pursuits like fishing and sketching and they just become sitting targets for mosquitoes.
    • The children were like sitting ducks and had no way to protect themselves.
    • Having lost their income, water supply, main food source and doctors, the people of the village were simply sitting ducks.
    • 'He's a sitting duck, a victim,’ he said.
    • She was a sitting duck and didn't even know she was in danger.
    • When somebody's got a lot of money and the rest of the world knows about it, they're sitting targets for scams.
    • Given its lowly valuation, a growing number of brokers believe that the car salvage specialist is a sitting duck for a predator.
    • This left them open for attack like sitting ducks.
    • They'll be sitting ducks over there with just High Guards as protection!
    • It's just a sitting target for kids and we are always hearing windows being smashed there.
    • As one AU colonel recently said, ‘We are sitting ducks.’
    • It doesn't matter if the human heavy tank can make itself invulnerable if it's just a sitting duck for air attacks.
    • Patrols outside the camp perimeter are designed to deter attacks and prevent the soldiers inside becoming little more than sitting ducks.
    • Kids can be extremely cruel, and I was a sitting target.
    • ‘We're sitting targets and they're not,’ explains Shah.
    • I can see these people being potential sitting ducks, setting themselves up for this disease.
    • Once identified, the soldiers are sitting targets.
    • We don't have to be sitting ducks and put up with this.
    • ‘We were sitting ducks at that point,’ explains Rick.
    Synonyms
    dupe, easy target, easy prey, fair game, sitting target, everybody's fool, stooge, gull, fool, aunt sally

Definition of sitting duck in US English:

sitting duck

(also sitting target)
nounˌsɪdɪŋ ˈdəkˌsidiNG ˈdək
informal
  • A person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.

    〈非正式〉易受攻击者;容易上钩者;易被击中的目标

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was a sitting duck and didn't even know she was in danger.
    • Once identified, the soldiers are sitting targets.
    • The problem is that a lot of visitors enjoy sedentary pursuits like fishing and sketching and they just become sitting targets for mosquitoes.
    • Kids can be extremely cruel, and I was a sitting target.
    • It's just a sitting target for kids and we are always hearing windows being smashed there.
    • The children were like sitting ducks and had no way to protect themselves.
    • ‘We were sitting ducks at that point,’ explains Rick.
    • Given its lowly valuation, a growing number of brokers believe that the car salvage specialist is a sitting duck for a predator.
    • They'll be sitting ducks over there with just High Guards as protection!
    • Having lost their income, water supply, main food source and doctors, the people of the village were simply sitting ducks.
    • It doesn't matter if the human heavy tank can make itself invulnerable if it's just a sitting duck for air attacks.
    • Patrols outside the camp perimeter are designed to deter attacks and prevent the soldiers inside becoming little more than sitting ducks.
    • ‘We're sitting targets and they're not,’ explains Shah.
    • As one AU colonel recently said, ‘We are sitting ducks.’
    • We don't have to be sitting ducks and put up with this.
    • I can see these people being potential sitting ducks, setting themselves up for this disease.
    • When somebody's got a lot of money and the rest of the world knows about it, they're sitting targets for scams.
    • But nobody wants to be a sitting target, either.
    • This left them open for attack like sitting ducks.
    • 'He's a sitting duck, a victim,’ he said.
    Synonyms
    dupe, easy target, easy prey, fair game, sitting target, everybody's fool, stooge, gull, fool, aunt sally
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