wildcat
n. 野貓; 脾氣暴躁的人
adj. (商業上或財務上)魯莽的,冒險的
v. 勘探石油
A wildcat is a cat which is very fierce and lives especially in mountains and forests.
A giant wildcat is being hunted after 58 lambs were butchered.
一隻大野貓在捕殺了58只羊羔後遭到獵捕。
A wildcat strike happens suddenly, as a result of a decision by a group of workers, and is not officially approved by a trade union.
Frustration, anger and desperation have led to a series of wildcat strikes.
挫敗感、憤怒和絕望引起了一系列自發性的罷工。
...wildcat stoppages on public transport.
公共交通部門的自發性罷工
A wildcat scheme, project, or business is risky and likely to fail, usually because there has not been enough planning.
It was a wildcat plan by some of our members.
這是我們的一些成員制訂的一個冒險計劃。
1. an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
2. a cruelly rapacious person
3. any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
1. outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices;
2. without official authorization;
3. (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive;
The discovery rate for wildcat wells in the Denver basin has changed radically with time.
丹佛盆地的探井發現率隨時間變化得很快.
The wildcat strikes have come under the backdrop of rapidly rising unemployment.
由於失業率迅速上升,英國工人擅自組織罷工(抗議外籍工人搶其飯碗).
The wildcat could have been on either side of the valley.
豹貓可能在山谷的某一側.
Car production stopped because of a wildcat strike by workers in the body shop.
由於車身製造車間工人們的自發罷工,汽車生產停止了.
The wildcat strikes have come onto under the backdrop of rapidly rising on unemployment.
這些強烈的罷工發生的背景是迅速提升的失業率.