wolf

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n. 狼, 残忍贪婪之人, 极度穷困 vt. 狼吞虎咽, 大吃

发音

UK /wʊlf/
US /wʊlf/
US /wʊɫf/
US /wɵɫf/
其它 /wʟ̩ːf/
NZ /wʊlf/
NZ /wʊwf/
其它 /wʉlf/
SCOT /wʉlf/
/wʊf/
/wʌlf/

词形变化

wolfie wolves 复数 wolves wolfed wolfing wolfs 三单 wolfs wolve wolfing 现在分词 wolfed 过去式 wolfed 过去分词

别名

wolfe wolp wolve

教材释义与例句

名词

狼;色狼;残忍贪婪之人

a wild animal that looks like a large dog and lives and hunts in groups

动词

大吃;狼吞虎咽地吃

to eat something very quickly, swallowing it in big pieces

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

    可数
  2. 2.

    Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

    Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.

    可数
  3. 3.

    A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

  4. 4.

    A wolf tone or wolf note.

    音乐

    The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

  5. 5.

    Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

    比喻

    They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

    the bee wolf

  6. 6.

    One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

  7. 7.

    A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.

  8. 8.

    A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).

  9. 9.

    An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

    废旧
  10. 10.

    A willying machine, that uses willow twigs to cleanse wool.

v.
  1. 1.

    To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

    不及物 俚语
  3. 3.

    To hunt for wolves.

    不及物

词汇关系

相关短语

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós? Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos Proto-Germanic *wulfaz Proto-West Germanic *wulf Old English wulf Middle English wolf English wolf Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus. Cognates Cognate with Scots wouf, North Frisian wulew, Saterland Frisian and German Low German Wulf, West Frisian, Alemannic German, and Dutch wolf, Bavarian bolf, bölf, Woif, Cimbrian and Mòcheno bolf, German Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, Vilamovian wuf, Yiddish וואָלף (volf), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ulv, Faroese úlvur, Icelandic úlfur, Swedish ulf, ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic olc (“bad, evil”), Lepontic 𐌖𐌋𐌊𐌏𐌔 (ulkos), Manx olk (“bad”), Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Latgalian vylks, Latvian vìlks, Lithuanian vilkas, Belarusian воўк (vowk), Bulgarian вълк (vǎlk), Czech and Slovak vlk, Macedonian and Russian волк (volk), Polish wilk, Serbo-Croatian вук, vuk, Slovene volk, Ukrainian вовк (vovk), Albanian ujk, ulk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Hittite 𒉿𒀠𒆪𒉿𒀸, Lydian 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤 (walwe, “lion”), Tocharian B walkwe.

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