| 单词 | in packs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin packs c. in packs: in predatory groups. ΚΠ 1707 Poems on Affairs of State IV. 59 When Rogues bare-fac'd appear in Packs, When State Physicians are all Quacks, And Privy Counsellors are Jacks. 1824 R. Kerr Gen. Hist & Coll. Voy. & Trav. ii. iv. 188 A race of wild dogs, which hunt in packs, and are so bold that they often weary out and worry a lion. 1840 C. Norton Dream p. x Thou didst not shrink,—of bitter tongues afraid, Who hunt in packs the object of their blame. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod ix It is a wild, rank place..where famished dogs may range in packs. 1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 136 Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity... They hunt in packs. 1977 New Yorker 11 July 19/1 I know the buses on Eighth tend to travel in packs. 1993 G. Donaldson Ville 209 When I was a kid we used to run in packs. < as lemmas |
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