| 英语单词 | sly |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [slaɪ] 美 [slaɪ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.狡猾的;会心的;淘气的;诡异的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) She's a sly puss. (2) He cast a sly glance at his bridge partner. (3) The sly cat stole the meat while the cook's back was turned. (4) A slow sly smile was creeping around the corners of his mouth. (5) "I have brought you myself," cried Moses, with a sly look, and resting the box on the dresser. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 她是个刁滑的姑娘。 (2) 他向桥牌搭档使了个会意的眼色。 (3) 淘气的猫趁厨师转身之机偷吃了肉。 (4) 他的嘴角慢慢露出了诡异的微笑。 (5) 摩西脸上有点诡异的神色,一面把木箱放在小桌上,说道,“我把我自己带回来给你。” |
| vocabulary简明 | When you're sly, you're crafty, cunning, tricky, and wily. Being sly is being deceitful, though not in the worst way. |
| vocabulary扩展 | If you're good at lying, you're quite sly: people who are sly are good at pulling one over on other people. Being sly helps you get away with things. If you made a mess in your house but got your parents to blame the dog, that was sly. Being sly means you're not being honest, but this word has kind of a harmless flavor to it. Someone who killed someone and lied about it would not be described as sly. Slyness has to do with smaller, sneakier, more harmless kinds of lying. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](眼神、表情或话语)会意的,心照不宣的 A sly look, expression, or remark shows that you know something that other people do not know or that was meant to be a secret. [usu ADJ n]
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2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]狡猾的;诡诈的 If you describe someone as sly, you disapprove of them because they keep their feelings or intentions hidden and are clever at deceiving people. [disapproval]
3 [PHRASE 短语]偷偷地 To do something on the sly means to do it secretly, often because it is wrong or bad. [PHR after v] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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