Wolf
[wʊlf]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.
(noun.) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women.
(noun.) German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824).
(noun.) Austrian composer (1860-1903).
(verb.) eat hastily; 'The teenager wolfed down the pizza'.
阿尔玛編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
(a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
(a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
(a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
(a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
(a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
(a.) A willying machine.
校對:鲁珀特
解釋/意思:
n. the common name of certain species of the genus Canis—including the ravenous Common Wolf the Abyssinian Wolf the Antarctic Wolf the Maned Wolf and the Prairie Wolf or Coyote: anything very ravenous: a greedy and cunning person: (obs.) a tuberculous excrescence: (mus.) a harsh discord heard in the organ &c.:—pl. Wolves.—v.i. to hunt for wolves.—v.t. (slang) to devour ravenously.—ns. Wolf′-dog a dog of large breed kept to guard sheep esp. against wolves; Wol′fer one who hunts wolves; Wolf′-fish a fierce and voracious salt-water fish—called also Sea-wolf and Cat-fish; Wolf′-hound (see Borzoi); Wol′fing the hunting of wolves for their skins.—adjs. Wol′fish Wol′vish like a wolf either in form or quality: rapacious.—adv. Wol′fishly.—ns. Wolf′kin Wolf′ling a young wolf; Wolf's′-bane aconite; Wolf's′-foot -claw the club-moss Lycopodium; Wolf′-skin the skin or pelt of a wolf; Wolf's′-peach the tomato; Wolf′-spī′der the tarantula; Wolf′-tooth a small supernumerary premolar in a horse.—Cry wolf to give a false alarm—from the story of the boy who cried 'Wolf' when there was none and was not believed when there was one; Have a wolf by the ears to be in a very difficult situation; Have a wolf in the stomach to be ravenously hungry; Keep the wolf from the door to keep out hunger; See a wolf to lose one's voice in allusion to an old superstition.
編輯:鲁弗斯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a wolf, shows that you have a thieving person in your employ, who will also betray secrets. To kill one, denotes that you will defeat sly enemies who seek to overshadow you with disgrace. To hear the howl of a wolf, discovers to you a secret alliance to defeat you in honest competition.
安吉拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The boar, the bear, the wolf, the ibex-- 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Yo' may be kind hearts, each separate; but once banded together, yo've no more pity for a man than a wild hunger-maddened wolf. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The ball killed a wolf. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They gathered around him like the sheep around the watch-dog, when they hear the baying of the wolf. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I want to ask you a question or two, to find out whether you are really godmother or really wolf. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They had a she-wolf for a nurse; I had only a she-wolf for a grandmother. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Two of the corpses appeared to have been partially devoured as though by wolves. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Right on behind, eight or ten of them, hot with brandy, swearing and foaming like so many wolves. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There are no traces of lions or true tigers at that time in Europe, but there were bears, otters, wolves, and a wild boar. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nor of wolves either, Anselmo said, picking up the other pack. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Many in the crowd were mere boys; cruel and thoughtless,--cruel because they were thoughtless; some were men, gaunt as wolves, and mad for prey. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The part of Ohio that I hailed from was not thickly settled, but wolves had been driven out long before I left. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
戴夫校對