单词 | werewolf |
释义 | werewolf From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Folklorewerewolfwere‧wolf /ˈweəwʊlf, ˈwɪə- $ ˈwer-, ˈwɪr-/ noun (plural werewolves /-wʊlvz/) [countable]RFa person who, in stories, changes into a wolf every month when the moon is fullExamples from the Corpuswerewolf• The film is about a lawyer who turns into a werewolf.• Other bizarre delusions, for instance about the body; e.g. that it is being transformed into that of a werewolf.• Do werewolves feel this sense of safety as they creep back just at dawn into some borrowed body?• She wished she could see Chambers' face when Wolff-Dietrich, the werewolf king, carried the tale back.Origin werewolf Old English werwulf, from wer “man” + wulf “wolf” |
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