| 单词 | wild |
| 释义 | wild I. 1. a. (1) < a wild ox > < wild duck > (2) < the tame wild goose finally flew away > — compare feral (3) b. (1) < wild furs > < the closest wild relative of cultivated corn — P.C.Mangelsdorf > < wild honey > (2) c. d. < the wild state > < wild nature > 2. a. < the only profit in wild land was to clear and plant it with one's own hands or to sell it — American Guide Series: New York > b. < becomes much wilder as the trees give place to bare granite crags — S.P.B.Mais > 3. a. (1) < mobs are wild, unpredictable, vicious, and insanely cruel when aroused — P.I.Wellman > < the wild frenzy of religious camp meetings — J.T.Adams > < a piano played with a wild exuberance — Louis Bromfield > (2) < the frenzied old man, wild with hatred and insane with baffled desire — W.M.Thackeray > < wild with grief > also < he was wild to own a toy train — J.C.Furnas > < his sponsors … are wild about him as a salesman — Howard Taubman > < boys wild for the venture — Marjory S. Douglas > < straining and wild to take to the air — Kay Boyle > < was wild at people talking, and upsetting him — Sheila Kaye-Smith > (3) < bars and bowling alleys full of wild youths breezily and brutally telling each other off — Robert Lowry > < a rabble of wild country lads — W.B.Yeats > < the zebra is too wild to be used as a draft animal > < a wild mop of hair — Irwin Shaw > (4) of a ship (5) b. < the sea against the west coast was wild with storm — Ernesta D. Barlow > < it's a wild night … to be out in the rain — J.M.Synge > c. d. < overmatched in lush, easy wealth the wildest dreams of fantasy — T.H.White b. 1915 > < remonstrating against the wild project — H.E.Scudder > < wild beliefs about the origin of these fishes — J.L.B.Smith > < the wildest complexity ever added to the steam engine — George Zabriskie > < a wild array of bathhouses, dance halls, freak shows, fun houses — American Guide Series: New York City > < a necktie of wild colors and pattern > e. (1) < wild cells forming a tumor > < a dog gone wild > (2) < the brakes gave out and … not even a fool would ride a wild truck … with an overload of logs — Hugh Fosburgh > — compare wildfire f. (1) < looked at me with a wild stare of agony — Walter O'Meara > < a wild gleam of delight in his eyes — Irish Digest > < taken his wild words in earnest — George Meredith > (2) < a wild 5-hour street battle — Current History > < a wild, frontier town — American Guide Series: Texas > < found dead on a beach, apparently following a wild party — M.S.Forbes > 4. a. < wild natives > < wild practices > b. < wild border tribes > c. < dirty, wild, and degraded as only the worst slaves of antiquity had been — Lewis Mumford > 5. < wild and rugged grandeur — Elinor Wylie > < wild love of freedom — Meridel Le Sueur > < in the brush a soft persuasive cooing … subtle and wild and unobtrusive — John Burroughs > 6. a. < impulsive grammar and wild spelling — C.W.Cunnington > < giving a wild guess, I suggested that the model was one twelfth the size of the ordinary chair — S.P.B.Mais > < wild price fluctuations — W.R.Langdon > < swing across traffic in a wild circle — Green Peyton > b. < afterimages … although perhaps not strictly hallucinations might be alleged as wild sense-data — R.J.Hirst > 7. < wild and precarious leaps — D.L.Busk > < a wild headache that did not leave her for days — Louis Bromfield > < the world's wildest religious fanatics — Isaac Deutscher > 8. of a playing card 9. of paper II. 1. < the ruthless life of the wild — James Stevenson-Hamilton > < settlers had to cross this Indian-infested wild — American Guide Series: Texas > < living in the wilds of Africa hunting crocodiles — Publisher's Weekly > 2. < corn in the wild may well have been a plant with low survival value — P.C.Mangelsdorf > III. 1. < wild shy about seeing any of her own people — Mary Deasy > 2. < given over to violence, society is an engine running wild — F.H.Giddings > |
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