Furtive
['fɜːtɪv]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; 'a furtive manner'; 'a sneak attack'; 'stealthy footsteps'; 'a surreptitious glance at his watch' .
阿德莱德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
哈里森校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Stolen, stealthy, surreptitious, clandestine, secret, sly.
哈利整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stealthy, clandestine, secretive, secret, sly
ANT:Open, public, undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed
黛博拉編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. stealthy: secret.—adv. Fur′tively.
艾弗里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I remembered the furtive hatred in her face when she said, There is no news of Sir Percival that I don't expect--except the news of his death. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but heavily proud. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But Loerke pulled himself together, rose, quivering, looking full at Gerald, his body weak and furtive, but his eyes demoniacal with satire. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She looked full into his face, and her dark, inchoate eyes had now a furtive look, and a look of a knowledge of evil, dark and indomitable. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The strong emotion was rarely suffered to influence her tongue, and even her eye refused it more than a furtive and fitful conquest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She glanced at his reflection with furtive eyes, willing to give anything to save him from knowing she could see him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He had a strange furtive pride and slinking singleness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A flicker of her eye beamed furtive on the professor's face. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I think they both cried a little in a furtive manner, while Dorothea ran down-stairs to greet her uncle. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The topics to which it wanders are unavowed and hence intellectually illicit; transactions with them are furtive. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The man looked up at him with a grimace of a smile, furtive, unsure. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The work was done in a detached, furtive, and inglorious manner. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even after this, Marco's accounts of the size and population of China were received with much furtive mockery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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