snake

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n. 蛇, 阴险的人 vi. 曲折行进 vt. 迂回, 拉, 急抽

发音

US /sneɪk/
UK /sneɪk/
US
AU

词形变化

snakeling snakes 复数 snakes snakie snaked snakes 三单 snaking snaking 现在分词 snaked 过去式 snaked 过去分词

别名

snek

教材释义与例句

名词

蛇；阴险的人

an animal with a long thin body and no legs, that often has a poisonous bite

动词

迂回前进

if a river, road, train, or line snakes somewhere, it moves in long twisting curves

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

    蛇

    长虫

    老蛇

    蛇哥

    虺

    水蛇

  2. 2.

    A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

    比喻

    Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer

  3. 3.

    A tool for unclogging plumbing.

  4. 4.

    A tool to aid cable pulling.

  5. 5.

    A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

    澳大利亚 英国
  6. 6.

    Trouser snake; the penis.

    俚语
  7. 7.

    A series of Bézier curves.

    数学
  8. 8.

    The seventh Lenormand card.

    宗教 哲学
  9. 9.

    An informer; a rat.

    多元文化伦敦英语 非裔美国英语

    Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.

  10. 10.

    Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.

    历史 商务 金融
  11. 11.

    Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

  12. 12.

    Ellipsis of snake game.

v.
  1. 1.

    To follow or move in a winding route.

    不及物

    The path snaked through the forest.

    The river snakes through the valley.

  2. 2.

    To steal slyly.

    澳大利亚 俚语 及物

    He snaked my DVD!

  3. 3.

    To clean using a plumbing snake.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

    美国 非正式
  5. 5.

    To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

    航海 交通
  6. 6.

    To inform; to rat; often with out.

    多元文化伦敦英语 非裔美国英语

    He says he didn't snake and I believe him.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

serpent auger ophidian plumber's snake snake in the grass

上位词 3

object diapsid hand tool

下位词 10

viper constrictor auger blindsnake closet auger colubrid elapid plumber's snake sea snake worm snake
动词

上位词 8

wind twist thread wander curve weave glide meander

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”). Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).

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