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Maverick Lot Samuel 英 Mævərɪk] 美 Mævərɪk N.未打烙印的小牛;持不同意见者 Adj.标新立异的

英语单词 maverick
英美音标 英 ['mævərɪk] 美 ['mævərɪk]
中文释义 n.未打烙印的小牛;持不同意见者
adj.标新立异的
英语例句 (1) Politically, she's a bit of a maverick.
(2) The Republican maverick was disliked and distrusted by too many in the party.
(3) Robby was a maverick vice cop, never doing things in legal way.
中文例句 (1) 在政治方面,她有点自行其是。
(2) 而在共和党内部,有太多人对这位特立独行者抱以嫌恶和不信任的态度。
(3) 华比是个特立独行的黑警察,从不以正当手段行事。
vocabulary简明 A maverick is a rebel, someone who shows a lot of independence. A maverick on a motorcycle might blaze his own trail, or show a maverick touch in a rough sport by wearing a helmet with the word "Mom" inside a heart.
vocabulary扩展 Samuel A. Maverick owned a lot of cattle, and he let them roam around Texas without a brand, or identification mark, seared into their skins. Samuel was a maverick for going against the common practice of tracking his animals, and his last name became part of the English language as both an adjective and a noun in the 19th century. Someone who acts very independently is a maverick, and individual actions that stand out are maverick, as in "her maverick jumping style on the ice was both wild and delicate."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](团体中)自行其是的人,特立独行的人,标新立异的人 If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are unconventional and independent, and do not think or behave in the same way as other people.
  [ADJ n]
  • He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office.

    他太特立独行,永远不可能做高官。

  • Maverick is also an adjective.
    • ...a maverick group of scientists, who oppose the prevailing medical opinion on the disease...

      就治疗这种疾病与医学界普遍观点相左的一群标新立异的科学家

    • Her independence and maverick behaviour precluded any chance of promotion.

      她的独立精神和自行其是断送了一切升迁的机会。

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