swat
verb- swat something
to hit something, especially an insect, using your hand or a flat object 拍,打(昆虫等) He was trying to swat a fly with a rolled-up newspaper. 他试图用卷起的报纸拍一只苍蝇。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySwat is used with these nouns as the object:- fly
- mosquito
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘sit down’): northern English dialect and US variant of squat.