| 单词 | savage |
| 释义 | sav·age I. 1. a. < the dog that is kept in a good home is usually watched carefully, kept from contact with savage dogs — Morris Fishbein > < in time the savage bull doth bear the yoke — Shakespeare > b. < the victim of a savage attack that left him crippled > < his tone containing the savage satisfaction of a cat purring over a freshly caught mouse — Erle Stanley Gardner > c. < when I was left at home I was savage at not being let go — G.B.Shaw > < the mother bird flew about over me, squealing in a very angry, savage manner — John Burroughs > d. < lashed out with all the oratorical fury and savage invective at his command — Sidney Warren > < what must happen in the savagest fury of a hurricane is left to the imagination — T.M.Longstreth > < a savage flu epidemic — Mollie Panter-Downes > 2. a. < there was something sylvan and savage in the mountains on the farther side — George Borrow > < seldom have I seen such savage scenery associated with such placid beauty — Douglas Carruthers > b. archaic < savage berries of the wood — John Dryden > 3. < the savage bad manners of most motorists — M.P.O'Connor > 4. a. < think that we have gained much over savage people in our notion of murder — W.G.Sumner > < civilized countries are more accessible than savage ones — Elinor Wylie > b. < his savage bones were small and delicate — David Garnett > < in delineation of animal life they are thus superior to modern savage fine art — Encyc. Americana > Synonyms: see barbarian, fierce II. 1. 2. a. < almost universally the children of savages are contented and well behaved — W.D.Wallis > b. < a savage who murdered in cold blood > c. < the disagreeable person, however cultured, is a savage — F.A.Swinnerton > 3. III. 1. < a solvent to the bitterness that had savaged him — Angus Mowat > 2. < a plump young man whose bare toes in their sandals must have been cruelly savaged in the crowd — Alan Moorehead > < the ugly habit of savaging mercilessly those who have somehow raised his dander — Times Literary Supplement > 3. of an animal < his horse must have gone crazy, thrown him and savaged him on the ground — Robert Graves > < set up an irritation which started the dog savaging itself — Veterinary Record > |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。