释义 |
ˈsnake-like, a. [f. snake n.] Like or resembling a snake or that of a snake; having the characteristic form of a snake; long and slender. Common in the 19th cent.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. ii. 34 Aloft where Chesil lifts Her ridged snake-like sands, in wrecks and smould'ring drifts. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 83 My own pet May..is sliding her snake-like head into my hand. 1839Lever H. Lorrequer xiii, The long procession wound its snake-like length down the narrow stair. c1880Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 301 Many of the smaller Colubrine Snakes resemble some of the Snake-like Lizards. fig.1821Byron Juan iv. ix, A long and snake-like life of dull decay. 1839–52Bailey Festus 99 This is a snakelike world, And always hath its tail within its mouth. |