英语词汇“slink”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

When you slink, you move in a deliberately quiet and sneaky way. You might slink into your physics class, hoping the teacher won't notice how late you are.

Kids playing hide and seek will sometimes slink around the house, quietly searching for good hiding spots, and wild animals tend to slink through the woods or fields when they're stalking prey or trying to avoid becoming prey themselves. Slink comes from the Old English word slincan, "to creep or crawl," which was mostly used to describe the movements of reptiles.

WORD FAMILY

slink: slinked, slinking, slinks, slunk

USAGE EXAMPLES

The proteins allow a neuron to recognize the surfaces and cells that it needs to slink over—and where it must stop to connect.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016)

Fosse’s dancers slunk across the stage, nearly frozen by their self-control and their disaffection.

The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016)

The saw-toothed ridgelines of mountain firs poked at the bellies of soft clouds slinking through the pass.

Seattle Times(Nov 25, 2016)

v walk stealthily

I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey

Hyper

walk

use one's feet to advance; advance by steps

单词	slink
释义	slink (once / 1761 pages) v When you slink, you move in a deliberately quiet and sneaky way. You might slink into your physics class, hoping the teacher won't notice how late you are. Kids playing hide and seek will sometimes slink around the house, quietly searching for good hiding spots, and wild animals tend to slink through the woods or fields when they're stalking prey or trying to avoid becoming prey themselves. Slink comes from the Old English word slincan, "to creep or crawl," which was mostly used to describe the movements of reptiles. WORD FAMILY slink: slinked, slinking, slinks, slunk USAGE EXAMPLES The proteins allow a neuron to recognize the surfaces and cells that it needs to slink over—and where it must stop to connect. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) Fosse’s dancers slunk across the stage, nearly frozen by their self-control and their disaffection. The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016) The saw-toothed ridgelines of mountain firs poked at the bellies of soft clouds slinking through the pass. Seattle Times(Nov 25, 2016) v walk stealthily I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey Hyper walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
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