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单词 to run sly
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to run sly
b. Of animals, etc. to run sly (see quot. 1845).
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1640 W. Mure Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 6 This slie fox, hunted from hole to hole.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 613 So talk'd the spirited sly Snake. View more context for this quotation
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 96 Whatever might be his fidelity to the duke, he [sc. a wolf] was very sly and malicious to others.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 590 From this instinctive cunning..the natives of the Orknies to this day call them [sc. sheldrakes] the sly goose.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 546 The dunter or eider duck, the sly goose, the awk.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems 70 A sly old Fish, too cunning for the Hook.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 408 The shieldrake, or slygoose, builds in these rabbit burrows.
1845 W. Youatt Dog ii. 38 The Scotch greyhound.., instead of depending on his speed alone,..has recourse to occasional artifices in order to intercept the hare, in sporting language, he runs sly.
extracted from slyadj.adv.n.
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