wolfish

英 [ˈwʊlfɪʃ]

美 [ˈwʊlfɪʃ]

adj.  似狼的

BNC.38096 / COCA.35205

牛津词典

adj.

• 似狼的
  like a wolf
  1. wolfish yellow eyes
     狼一般的黄眼睛
  2. a wolfish grin (= showing sexual interest in sb)
     淫荡的露齿笑

英英释义

adj

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  1. edacious vultures
  2. a rapacious appetite
  3. ravenous as wolves
  4. voracious sharks
  Synonym:edaciousesurientrapaciousraveningravenousvoracious
• resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf
  1. ran in wolflike packs
  2. wolfish rapacity
  Synonym:wolflike

双语例句

• Martin shook his head, but he had failed to keep back the wolfish, hungry look that leapt into his eyes at the suggestion of dinner.
  马丁摇摇头，但是他听见吃饭时眼里所流露出的饿狼般的馋相，却无法掩饰。
• The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
  可我的大闺女总选择在上学前一刻、睡前或我正当带着豺狼般贪婪的面目洗劫冰箱时来纠缠我，恳求我允许她穿耳洞。
• It is not an elegant comparison, but there is something wolfish in society.
  我这个比喻不文雅，但是社交界有种品性很像狼。
• Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.
  这声音甚至比那落叶松林的嘶嘶的怒号声更高，落时松林在山坡上，遍布着忿怒的、无叶的、狞恶的暗影。她听见好象一些渺小的水铃在鸣着。
• "No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world".
  我的破碎的心和发狂的手不再抗拒这豺狼似的世界。
• He gave her a wolfish grin.
  他色眼贪婪地对她笑了一下。