Rampant
['ræmp(ə)nt] or ['ræmpənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth; 'a rampant growth of weeds' .
(adj.) unrestrained and violent; 'rampant aggression' .
(adj.) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile; 'a lion rampant' .
埃莉整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v.) Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.
(v.) Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
(v.) Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.
费利西亚編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Rank, exuberant, luxuriant, wanton.[2]. Vehement, impetuous, ungovernable, uncontrollable, headstrong.[3]. (Her.) Standing erect (on the hind legs, as a lion).
編輯:梅森
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Unbridled, uncontrolled, wanton, headstrong, luxuriant, furious, rank, violent,licentious, vehement
ANT:Demure, self-restrained, restrained, self-controlled, disciplined, curbed
博比編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. overgrowing usual bounds: rank in growth: overleaping restraint: (her.) standing on the hind-legs.—n. Ramp′ancy state of being rampant.—adv. Ramp′antly.—Rampant arch an arch whose abutments are not on the same level.
編輯:罗比
例句/造句/用法:
- As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Union men became rampant, aggressive, and, if you will, intolerant. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
編輯:罗比