Sneak
[sniːk] or [snik]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible.
(verb.) to go stealthily or furtively; '..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house'.
(verb.) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; 'sneak a look'; 'sneak a cigarette'.
艾比校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
(imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
(v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
(n.) A mean, sneaking fellow.
(n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
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同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Skulk, lurk, slink, peak, steal away, sneak off, slink away.[2]. Crouch, truckle.
n. Shirk, lurker, mean fellow.
手打:玛莎
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Slink, skulk, steal_away, lurk, cringe, crouch, truckle,[See CROSS]
康拉德編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to creep or steal away privately or meanly: to behave meanly.—v.t. (slang) to steal.—n. a mean servile fellow: a mean thief.—ns. Sneak′-cup (Shak.) one who balks his glass: a cowardly insidious scoundrel; Sneak′er.—adj. Sneak′ing mean crouching: secret underhand not openly avowed.—adv. Sneak′ingly.—ns. Sneak′ingness Sneak′iness the quality of being sneaking: meanness; Sneaks′by (obs.) a sneak.—adj. Sneak′y somewhat sneaking.
杰克逊整理
例句/造句/用法:
- You had a love affair all summer and got this girl with child and now I suppose you'll sneak off. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- You're a philanthropic sneak. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The sneak a'n't worthy of her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with, remarked Holmes as we trudged along together. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In your employment is an under-handed sneak, named Rokesmith. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Shall I turn coward to Lizzie, and sneak away with her, as if I were ashamed of her! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- NoI think I should have sneaked past in terror of a rebuff from Disappointment: my heart throbbed now as if I already heard the tramp of her approach. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She sneaked away when her eyes met those of Wenham, and indeed never succeeded in her designs upon the Baronet. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I have not sneaked home to rob your children, if not yourself, brother, of your rights. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sneaking in and out, so as nobody hears how you come or go! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Was ever such a sneaking varmint? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Come in, you sneaking warmint; wot are you stopping outside for, as if you was ashamed of your master! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He opened the package showing the books, somewhat to the disgust of the officer, who imagined he had caught a burglar sneaking away in the dark alley with his booty. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Another glance over my shoulder discovered the first eyes sneaking on me again. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Mr. Guppy sneaks away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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