| 单词 | lurk |
| 释义 | lurk I. 1. a. < guerrillas lurk in the mountains > < unlicensed traders lurking along the shore — R.A.Billington > < below the surface lurk little beasts of prey — Alice Duncan-Kemp > b. < shall I lurk about this country like a thief — Henry Fielding > < cook lurks down before daylight to scour her pots and pans — W.M.Thackeray > c. < melancholy that lurks in the eyes of cripples — Ellen Glasgow > < bass which lurk among the cypress knees — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < the excitement of the first act still lurking in the air — Richard Fletcher > 2. a. < wants what he sees, not what may be lurking in the future — Gertrude Atherton > < in the play lurked a wholesome plea for freedom — Leslie Rees > < the obviously genuine humor which lurked behind his utterances — Alvin Redman > specifically < malaria lurked in the marshy lands — American Guide Series: Virginia > < these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust — R.H.Jackson > b. < beating the thickets … searching out some spring calves he knew were lurking there — P.B.Kyne > < diamonds were said to lurk in the sand and gravel — Emily Hahn > < treasures … might have lurked in the next book to be turned from Greek or Arabic into Latin — R.W.Southern > Synonyms: < mountain defiles that concealed lurking Indians — American Guide Series: Oregon > or a readiness to attack < a hungry shark that was lurking at a little distance — Francis Birtles > couch (archaic in this sense) is to make oneself inconspicuous for some reason < no vast obscurity or misty vale, where bloody murder … can couch for fear — Shakespeare > skulk usually carries a strong implication of sinister intention or of cowardice or fear < coyotes skulking near the cattle — Zane Grey > < eludes his pursuers and skulks off through the swamp — American Guide Series: Arkansas > < to be eternally conscious of enemies on every side; to skulk behind hedges; to hide in holes and corners — Kenneth Roberts > slink implies cautious movement to evade observation < a cat slunk, a padding shadow, across the white space — Ruth Park > < his way of slinking round a corner like a fox — Edith Sitwell > < Hagen slunk down the dark stairs, past a sound of snoring — Berton Roueché > sneak may add a suggestion of deliberate intent to enter or leave a place or position by sly, indirect, usually underhanded methods < I sneak out of the house and go to a Dairy Company's tea shop — Arnold Bennett > < had to sneak into his old laboratory at night with a key he still keeps — D.C.Peattie > < typhoid fever … sneaks in when sanitation fails — Justina Hill > II. slang Britain |
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