"draw a blank" meaning in 英语

See draw a blank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: draws a blank, drawing a blank, drew a blank, drawn a blank
  1. 想不起来 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-draw_a_blank-en-verb-Kd8d3RQ4
  2. 找不到,一无所获 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-draw_a_blank-en-verb-gSbGUK9C
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語動詞, 英語詞元

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    {
      "form": "draws a blank",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "drawing a blank",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "drew a blank",
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        "過去式"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.",
          "translation": "我应该知道那个人的名字,但是我想不起来了。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "想不起来"
      ],
      "id": "zh-draw_a_blank-en-verb-Kd8d3RQ4",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead, 卷 2,頁號 472:",
          "text": "\"Oh,\" she replied, \"when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it [the lottery ticket] would draw a blank.[…]\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, 出自 Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When she brainstormed about what else she would do, where else she would go, her mind drew a blank."
        }
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        "找不到,一无所获"
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      "id": "zh-draw_a_blank-en-verb-gSbGUK9C",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "draw a blank"
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      "form": "draws a blank",
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        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
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      "form": "drew a blank",
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.",
          "translation": "我应该知道那个人的名字,但是我想不起来了。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "想不起来"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856, Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead, 卷 2,頁號 472:",
          "text": "\"Oh,\" she replied, \"when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it [the lottery ticket] would draw a blank.[…]\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, 出自 Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When she brainstormed about what else she would do, where else she would go, her mind drew a blank."
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        "找不到,一无所获"
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