| 词组 | cop |
| 释义 | cop A few commentators worry about the status of cop for "police officer." Bremner 1980 says it is gaining respectability. It has gained respectability, and is used regularly in the general English of newspapers and magazines in the United States and in Great Britain and other countries using British English. It is, of course, used in novels and occasionally turns up in collections of essays and such, although it does not appear often in the most elevated kinds of writing. • ... we were surprised to learn that he makes his living as a traffic cop in midtown Manhattan —New Yorker, 28 June 1982 • Equally fine is Kinderman, the cop —Keith S. Fel-ton, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1971 • I grew up in Ohio when the cop on the corner was a girl's best friend —Eleanor Perry, Ms., September 1972 • Don McKillop continues as the local cop —Paul Foster, Scottish Field, May 1974 • ... cops were allowed to behave like real people — Joan Bakewell, The Listener, 13 June 1974 |
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