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单词 jackal
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jackal

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animalsjackaljack‧al /ˈdʒækɔːl, -kəl $ -kəl/ noun [countable]  HBAa wild animal like a dog that lives in Asia and Africa and eats the remaining parts of dead animalsExamples from the CorpusjackalCareful historians, incidentally, warn us that it could not be a fox, but must have been a jackal.Gustave washed his face in a canvas pail; a jackal howled; he smoked a pipe.And Urien follows him still, brother jackals, playing at being lions.Relieved to have grass underfoot silencing his blithe escape, Laverne glances back with all the charm of a lowly jackal.the jackals of Wall StreetThe jackal as Anubis presided over mummification and was lord and protector of cemeteries.Origin jackal (1600-1700) Turkish çakal, from Persian shagal, from Sanskrit srgala
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