sly

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a. 狡猾的, 诡密的, 俏皮的, 偷偷摸摸的

发音

其它 /slaɪ/

词形变化

slier 比较级 slier sliest slyer slyest slyer 比较级 sliest 最高级 slyest 最高级

别名

slee slie sligh

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

    狡猾

    鬼黠

    狡黠

  2. 2.

    Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice

  3. 3.

    Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle

    a sly trick

  4. 4.

    Light or delicate; slight; thin.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Slyly.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

tricky cunning slick dodgy crafty foxy wily guileful knavish tricksy

近义相关 1

artful

相关短语

sly as a fox 狡猾 sly fox sly foxes sly dog sly dogs Sly syndrome on the sly 诡秘地 by the sly

词源

From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd

来源：wiktionary