wolf
n. 狼
v. 狼吞虎嚥
A wolf is a wild animal that looks like a large dog.
If someone wolfs their food, they eat it all very quickly and greedily.
I was back in the changing room wolfing tea and sandwiches.
我回到更衣室,狼吞虎嚥地喝茶、吃三明治。
If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
If you keep the wolf from the door, you succeed in providing food and other necessary things for yourself or your family.
A lot of the lads took small jobs to help keep the wolf from the door.
很多少年打零工幫補家裡維持生計。
1. any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
2. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
3. a cruelly rapacious person
1. eat hastily;
cry wolf
喊“狼來了”;發假警報
hold (或 have) a wolf by the ears
處於危急狀況
keep the wolf from the door
(誇張地)免於窮困;免於捱餓
throw someone to the wolves
棄某人於危險(或困境)而不顧
a wolf in sheep's clothing
披著羊皮的狼,偽裝友善的敵人
keep the wolf from the door&I{【俚語】}
免於窮困:為避免窮困和由於缺錢而造成的痛苦
wolf at the door
債權人
wolf in sheep's clothing
披著羊皮的狼:假裝意氣相投但實際上懷著惡毒意圖的人
The wolf died out in Britain hundreds of years ago.
狼在英國數百年前就滅絕了.
The wolf padded through the forest.
那隻狼慢慢地走過森林.
Becky named the wolf Ralph and carried food and water to the stump every day.
貝基給這匹狼取了個名字叫拉爾夫,每天都把食物和水送到樹樁那裡.
A growing youth a wolf in his belly.
年輕人,在成長,吃起飯來像惡狼.
Female wolf spiders may allow young to climb on their backs and transport them.
母狼蛛會允許幼蜘蛛爬到它背上,並馱著它們走.