wolfish

英 [ˈwʊlfɪʃ] 美 [ˈwʊlfɪʃ]

adj.  似狼的

BNC.38096 / COCA.35205



牛津词典

adj.

  1. 似狼的
    like a wolf
    1. wolfish yellow eyes
      狼一般的黄眼睛
    2. a wolfish grin (= showing sexual interest in sb)
      淫荡的露齿笑

双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. He gave her a wolfish grin.
    他色眼贪婪地对她笑了一下。
  5. "No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world".
    我的破碎的心和发狂的手不再抗拒这豺狼似的世界。
  6. It is not an elegant comparison, but there is something wolfish in society.
    我这个比喻不文雅,但是社交界有种品性很像狼。

英英释义

adj

  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
    1. edacious vultures
    2. a rapacious appetite
    3. ravenous as wolves
    4. voracious sharks

    Synonym:    edaciousesurientrapaciousraveningravenousvoracious

  2. resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf
    1. ran in wolflike packs
    2. wolfish rapacity

    Synonym:    wolflike