wolfish
贪婪的
常用释义
英音[ ˈwʊlfɪʃ ]
美音[ ˈwʊlfɪʃ ]
基本释义
- adj. 残忍的；贪婪的；狼似的
例句
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1·The Defenders of Wildlife, a wolfish outfit, says coyotes kill 20 times more cattle than wolves do.灰狼保护组织 “野生动植物保护者”称，土狼能杀死比灰狼多20倍的家畜；
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2·He's not a rough diamond — a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.他不是一块粗糙的钻石——乡下人当中的一个含珠之蚌，而是一个凶恶的，无情的，像狼一样残忍的人。
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3·Martin shook his head, but he had failed to keep back the wolfish, hungry look that leapt into his eyes at the suggestion of dinner.马丁摇摇头，但是他听见吃饭时眼里所流露出的饿狼般的馋相，却无法掩饰。
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4·Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.这声音甚至比那落叶松林的嘶嘶的怒号声更高，落时松林在山坡上，遍布着忿怒的、无叶的、狞恶的暗影。她听见好象一些渺小的水铃在鸣着。
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5·The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.可我的大女儿总选择在上学前一刻、睡前或我正当带着豺狼般贪婪的面目洗劫冰箱时来纠缠我，恳求我允许她穿耳洞。
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6·The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.可我的大闺女总选择在上学前一刻、睡前或我正当带着豺狼般贪婪的面目洗劫冰箱时来纠缠我，恳求我允许她穿耳洞。
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7·In the evening in Illulissat the sun fails to set and from the hotel terrace we watch a pack of wolfish Greenlandic sledge dogs howling in complaint at the relative heat.晚上的伊路利沙特，太阳无法落山。通过宾馆阳台，我们看到一群格陵兰雪橇狼狗在这相对更热的环境下咆哮抱怨。
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8·I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long spears, cavewomen wearing strategicallymodest skins, wolfish dogs.我随即来到了一片黑暗中，对着砖地呕吐，我抬起头，看到了红色的出口照明标志，当我适应了黑暗之后，看到了老虎，洞穴里的男人拿着长矛，女人穿着用来表示作战的兽皮，还有凶残的野狗。
同根词
词根：
wolf