英语单词 | maverick |
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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 | 1 [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]
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