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

a. To pursue (game) by stealthy approach. to stalk down: to follow or track (an animal) stealthily until one comes within range.

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1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ii. 45 And for shooting him from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.

1845 Zoologist 3 971 He immediately proposed to a friend to get a horse and stalk them [wild swans].

1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 66 I intend to buy you a gun, that you may learn to stalk deer yourself.

1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 178 No animal is more difficult to stalk than the giraffe.

1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo ii. 25 Lions always stalk their prey in complete silence.

1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo xxvii. 309 We dismounted and stalked them [the eland] carefully through the long grass.

figurative and in extended use.1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. vii. 68 As he was pursuing the deer, she stalked his lordship.1861 W. M. Thackeray Philip ix Mrs. Matcham's girl fished for Captain Woolcomb last year in Scotland,..and stalked him to Paris.1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 5/2 Their [sc. torpedo boats'] special function is to stalk ironclads at night time.1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 188 One would hardly care to make a study of animal photography with a larger-sized apparatus than 1/1-plate. To stalk a flock of sheep with a 15 × 12..would..be worse than futile.1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. iii. viii. 435 Whigs and Peelites..were all ready at last to stalk down their crafty quarry.

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释义	> as lemmas to stalk down a. To pursue (game) by stealthy approach. to stalk down: to follow or track (an animal) stealthily until one comes within range. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > stalk (animal) stalk1823 still-hunt1877 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ii. 45 And for shooting him from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. 1845 Zoologist 3 971 He immediately proposed to a friend to get a horse and stalk them [wild swans]. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 66 I intend to buy you a gun, that you may learn to stalk deer yourself. 1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 178 No animal is more difficult to stalk than the giraffe. 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo ii. 25 Lions always stalk their prey in complete silence. 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo xxvii. 309 We dismounted and stalked them [the eland] carefully through the long grass. figurative and in extended use.1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. vii. 68 As he was pursuing the deer, she stalked his lordship.1861 W. M. Thackeray Philip ix Mrs. Matcham's girl fished for Captain Woolcomb last year in Scotland,..and stalked him to Paris.1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 5/2 Their [sc. torpedo boats'] special function is to stalk ironclads at night time.1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 188 One would hardly care to make a study of animal photography with a larger-sized apparatus than 1/1-plate. To stalk a flock of sheep with a 15 × 12..would..be worse than futile.1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. iii. viii. 435 Whigs and Peelites..were all ready at last to stalk down their crafty quarry. extracted from stalkv.¹ < as lemmas
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