| 英语单词 | feral |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['ferəl] 美 ['ferəl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.野生的;凶猛的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Never try to grab a feral cat if he/she is escaping. (2) No one is dare to get close to the dog as it is too feral. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 不要试着抓取一只野生的猫如果他/她正在逃脱。 (2) 他们的狗太凶猛了,所以没有敢靠近它。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When animal control finds a feral dog, they have to handle it very carefully because the animal is so wild that it's probably afraid of humans and likely to bite. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Feral is often used to describe a wild, untamed animal, like the feral cat with its claws and sharp teeth menacingly bared, ready to strike. Qualities that are similar to a wild animal can also be called feral. The child who grew alone up in a cabin in the woods, and who didn't go to school, was called feral when she ran away from the orphanage. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词](尤指通常由人饲养的动物)野生的,未驯服的 Feral animals are wild animals that are not owned or controlled by anyone, especially ones that belong to species which are normally owned and kept by people. [usu ADJ n] [FORMAL 正式]
2 [ADJ 形容词]狂野的;狂暴的;桀骜不驯的 If you describe something or someone as feral, you mean that they seem wild, fierce, and uncontrolled. [usu ADJ n] [LITERARY 文]
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