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单词 apish
释义

apish

/ˈeɪpɪʃ /
adjective
1Resembling or likened to an ape: Australopithecus had an apish cranium...
  • Lately, he has taken to apish chest-thumping in proclaiming that various individuals are ‘ducking’ and ‘backing down’ from him.
  • Compared to our apish ancestors, which could run only short distances, we have a more balanced head, flatter face, and smaller teeth and nose.
  • But why did women - and men, for that matter - lose the apish fur that covered most of our bodies to begin with?
2Foolish or silly.But the plot and its apish qualities ultimately aren't very important....
  • In truth, he had suspected all his subordinates were just as apish as each other.

Derivatives

apishly

adverb ...
  • Legs hooked over the board, he hangs apishly, body massively contracted, even his extremities.
  • We were visionary idealists, purposefully choosing to pursue a lifestyle that did not apishly conform to culture.
  • I felt a rush of jitters, my arms swung apishly like pendulums and my legs seemed disconnected, lumbering stilts.

apishness

noun ...
  • Formerly man's apishness did not matter so much, but now he is gaining dangerous powers, and may destroy himself.
  • Few people would go to excess if they were not unwholesomely over-excited about their trivial apishness.
  • Failure did not become victory, weakness did not become strength and we apes stopped emailing one another and greeting one another, and withdrew into mute apishness and mute despair.
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