Leer
[lɪə] or [lɪr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a suggestive or sneering look or grin.
(verb.) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression; 'The men leered at the young women on the beach'.
手打:柯尔斯顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To learn.
(a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
(a.) Empty of contents.
(a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
(a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
(n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
(n.) The cheek.
(n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
(n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
(v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
(v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.
手打:莱曼
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Look askance (in contempt).
奥罗拉編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a sly sidelong look: (Shak.) complexion colour.—v.i. to look askance: to look archly or obliquely.—adv. Leer′ingly with a leering look.
艾琳校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There was a kind of leer about his lips; he seemed laughing in his sleeve at some person or thing; his whole air was anything but that of a true man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I hope I am, sir,' said Mr. Gamfield, with an ugly leer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- As she glanced down into the yard, she saw Pancks come in and leer up with the corner of his eye as he went by. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Pray, said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught my sight again, whose likenesses are those? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The man on the other side of the half-door, was a waterside-man with a squinting leer, and he eyed her as if he were one of her pupils in disgrace. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And the old man rubbed his hands, and leered as if in delight at having found another point of view in which to place his favourite subject. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He jumped up, and the leaden eyes which twinkled behind his mountainous cheeks leered horribly upon the food as he unpacked it from the basket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- They paid her tipsy compliments; they leered at her over the dinner-table. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Miss Abbey knitted her brow at him, as he darkly leered at her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The old man looked round the table, and leered more horribly than ever, as if in triumph, at the attention which was depicted in every face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Look at me, I'm not very fur from fowr-score--he, he; and he laughed, and took snuff, and leered at her and pinched her hand. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The goblin leered maliciously at the terrified sexton, and then raising his voice, exclaimed-- '“And who, then, is our fair and lawful prize? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He undid it slowly, leering and laughing at me, before he began to turn them over, and threw it there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And all this with such a sneering, leering, insolent face that I would have knocked him down twenty times over if he had been a man of my own age. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- And he jumped on the bus, and I saw his ugly face leering at me with a wicked smile to think how he'd had the last word of plaguing. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Get away, said Jos Sedley, quite pleased, and leering up at the maid-servant in question with a most killing ogle. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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