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单词 tearaway
释义
tearaway
noun[C]
UKinformal
uk
/ˈteə.rə.weɪ/us
/ˈter.ə.weɪ/
ayoungperson, usuallymale, whobehavesin anuncontrolledway and is oftencausingtrouble:
小流氓
He was arealtearaway atschool- he was always introublewithteachersor with thepolice.他在学校是个十足的小阿飞，老是因犯事遭到老师或警察的责罚。
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(Definition oftearawayfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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In these tearaways, for whom violence and aggression is a common, casual and routine experience, such behaviour must always be condemned and never condoned.
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Even among young and inexperienced drivers, there is a real difference between the accident risk of a responsible driver and of atearaway.
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I would like, however, to propose still further safeguards to protect boards from irresponsible andtearawayelements among shareholders.
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When the school re-admits the pupil it looks as though the school is somehow giving way to pressure from atearawayor group of tearaways.
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Their expenditure plans, so far as we can understand them, would be bound to lead totearawayinflation.
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If tearaways driving around in the middle of the night had to produce an identity card with a photograph, that problem would be resolved.
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Even among young inexperienced motorists, there is a difference between the accident risk of a responsible driver and atearaway.
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There will always be tearaways and boom boys.
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From my own observations, they capture the enthusiasm and imagination of young tearaways who have an absolute obsession with driving away cars.
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He may have been a bit of atearawayin his youth and may even have tattoos on his arms, or something unseemly such as that.
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If a policeman decides to give a 16 or 17-year-oldtearawaya fixed penalty notice, that is the end of it, but the court cannot have the same discretion.
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Yet the cost of the use of drill halls to train young tearaways to become good citizens would be amply justified by the reduction in the cost of potential crime.
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Wild tearaways, wreckers and vandals, who, happily, are still in the minority, are undermining school discipline and community standards and causing an immense loss to public funds by their activities.
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Basketball and track and field are the two sports most commonly associated withtearawaypants and windpants.
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The computer controls all the other characters in the game, including the headmaster, other teachers, the schooltearaway, bully, swot and other pupils.
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