Slippery
['slɪp(ə)rɪ] or ['slɪpəri]
解释:
(adj.) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; 'slippery sidewalks'; 'a slippery bar of soap'; 'the streets are still slippy from the rain' .
(adj.) not to be trusted; 'how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is'- James Agee .
手打:托马斯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
(a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
(a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
(a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
(a.) Uncertain in effect.
(a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
整理:莉莲
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Smooth, glib.[2]. Unstable, uncertain, changeable, mutable, unsteady, shaky.[3]. Treacherous, perfidious, faithless, knavish, dishonest, false.
布莱恩录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Smooth, glassy, lubricated, insecure, perilous, unsafe, unstable, shifty,elusive, shuffling, unprincipled, deceptive, evasive, untrustworthy, uncertain
ANT:Rough, firm, unslippery, secure, safe, stable, solid, trustworthy
手打:斯坦
例句:
- How slippery it is, Sam! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- These slippery smooth walls would give him no chance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It was hard and slippery. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- One horse had a heavy fall on the slippery rocks, and the others had narrow escapes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- If he'd hear to me, he wouldn't trust any on ye--slippery as eels! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- He was very quick and slippery and full of electric fire. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I suggested waiting through this interval on the beach, instead of on the wet and slippery surface of the rocks. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Let him take care also that he avoid in the darkness the drippings from the overhanging eaves or windows, and falling upon the slippery steps of the dim doorway he may be about to enter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- You can have no idea how dexterously he manages these slippery Greeks. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Going up the road toward home the road was smooth and slippery for a while and the ice orange from the horses until the wood-hauling track turned off. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Oh, she did look so funny, hugging the big, slippery fish, and hoping Mr. Laurence's bed in heaven would be 'aisy'. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Jown the slippery glasses, said Grandfer Cantle. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- And her throat was beautifully, so beautifully soft, save that, within, he could feel the slippery chords of her life. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down to destruction. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Waxed floor very slippery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He's as slippery as an eel, he is. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Then there is the dancing on the slippery wine-skin, which is very amusing. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I'm very stupid about studying anything, can't bear French, it's such a slippery, silly sort of language, was the brusque reply. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- We got ashore among some slippery stones while we ate and drank what we had with us, and looked about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- It began with L; it was almost all l's I fancy, he went on, with a sense that he was getting hold of the slippery name. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I was then conducted down stairs into the wet, slippery court, and the first things that attracted my attention were my heels. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
手打:斯坦