英语单词 | hound |
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英美音标 | 英 [haʊnd] 美 [haʊnd] |
中文释义 | n.猎狗;可鄙之人;追踪者;迷 vt.带猎犬狩猎;紧追;烦扰;催促 |
英语例句 | (1) They went hunting with a pack of hounds. (2) News hound sniffs the air. (3) My sister is a movie hound. (4) He has been hounded by his creditors in the past few months. (5) The police are always hounding me. (6) She is always hounded by the press. (7) Mom hounded me to get up. |
中文例句 | (1) 他们带一群猎狗去打猎。 (2) 狗仔队闻着空气里的味道。 (3) 我妹妹是个影迷。 (4) 近几个月来,他一直被债主追债。 (5) 警方一直在追捕我。 (6) 她总是受到新闻界的烦扰。 (7) 妈妈催我起身。 |
vocabulary简明 | A hound is a type of dog with big floppy ears, mainly used for hunting. To hound someone is to relentlessly pursue or pester them. When Elvis sings, “You ain’t nothing but a hound dog,” he’s referring to both. |
vocabulary扩展 | Hounds are dogs that have traditionally been used for hunting because they are excellent at tracking. Most hounds (like beagles and dachshunds) have drooping, floppy ears. Hounds can also be big and scary like the one Sherlock Holmes investigates in The Hound of the Baskervilles. If people hound, they hunt, too, but just in an annoying way. A man can hound a woman by asking for a date 10 times. A hounding person is persistent and probably annoying. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]猎犬;赛犬 A hound is a type of dog that is often used for hunting or racing.
2 [VERB 动词](不断地)烦扰,叨唠,纠缠 If someone hounds you, they constantly disturb or speak to you in an annoying or upsetting way. [V n]
3 [VERB 动词](常指通过不断批评而)逼迫(某人辞职或离开某地) If someone is hounded out of a job or place, they are forced to leave it, often because other people are constantly criticizing them. [ [usu passive]
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