Weasel
['wiːz(ə)l] or ['wizl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck.
(noun.) a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky.
汉密尔顿校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.
整理:默娜
解釋/意思:
n. a common carnivore belonging to the same genus as the polecat and stoat—the body long and slender—eating rats frogs birds mice &c.: (Shak.) a lean hungry fellow.—n. Wea′sel-coot the red-headed smew.—adj. Wea′sel-faced having a lean sharp face.
手打:威特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see a weasel bent on a marauding expedition in your dreams, warns you to beware of the friendships of former enemies, as they will devour you at an unseemly time. If you destroy them, you will succeed in foiling deep schemes laid for your defeat.
整理:默尔
例句/造句/用法:
- On the whole, it was probably some creature of the weasel and stoat tribe--and yet it is larger than any of these that I have seen. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Her self was all in her head, she did not know what it was spontaneously to run or move, like a fish in the water, or a weasel on the grass. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Catch a weasel at it, and catch a Jew! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I observed the young animal's flesh to smell very rank, and the stink was somewhat between a weasel and a fox, but much more disagreeable. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- A weasel or a mouse that gets its own living is more interesting. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The ermine fur, with which we are all familiar, is furnished by the stoat, a small animal of the weasel tribe. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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