| 单词 | wolf pack |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswolf pack wolf pack n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > formations of ships > of submarines wolf pack1895 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > pack of packa1450 wolf pack1895 1895 H. Maxwell Duke of Brit. viii. 105 Supposing the wolf-pack over~whelmed you. 1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 9 July–30 Sept. 270/1 The U-boat is now being used as a unit in a flotilla... We had a hint of it a year ago when the Berlin bulletins talked about ‘wolf pack’ attacks on convoys. 1951 W. Stevens Let. 2 Oct. (1967) 731 There is probably a sort of wolf-pack that follows him [sc. Hermann Hesse] round. His idea of throwing out a poem or two to slow them up and invite them to devour each other sounds almost like folklore. 1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 26 Sept. 9/2 What Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof spawned as a small wolf pack of urban guerrillas has now become a scattered army of vicious malcontents, bent on destroying the society around them. 1980 ‘D. Grant’ Emerald Decision vi. 129 They were headed for the perilous North Channel..if they survived the wolfpacks. wolf pack wolf pack n. a number of wolves naturally associating as a group, esp. for hunting; also figurative, esp. denoting an attacking group of German submarines in the war of 1939–45. < as lemmas |
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