| 释义 |
dovelike, a. and adv.|ˈdʌvlaɪk|
Like a dove; after the manner of a dove.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 726 Doue-like simplicitie. 1667Milton P.L. i. 21 Thou [O Spirit]..Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss. 1710Pope Windsor For. 430 Where Peace..scatters blessings from her dovelike wing. 1810Cobbett Hist. Reform. xiii. §381 They have not always been in the same dove-like mood. 1930R. Campbell Adamastor 71 With dove-like voices call the distant fillies. 1968Listener 20 June 816/3 Even a journalist from the dove-like New York Times was seen wielding a sub-machine-gun during the Tet offensive. |