monkey

Word family

Related topics: Animals

mon·key1 /ˈmʌŋki/ S3 noun [countableC]

1. HBAa small brown animal with a long tail, which uses its hands to climb trees and lives in hot countries 猴

2 informalCHILD a small child who is very active and likes to play tricks 顽皮儿童，淘气鬼，捣蛋鬼

Stop that, you little monkey!

别这样，你这个小淘气鬼！

3. monkey business informalBAD PERSON bad or dishonest behaviour 恶作剧；骗人把戏，不轨行为

Examples from the Corpus

monkey business• The proposal had become the victim of political monkey business and deceit.

4 not give a monkey’s British EnglishBrE spoken informalDON'T CARE to not care at all about something 一点都不在乎

To be honest I don’t give a monkey’s what they do.

说实话，我一点都不在乎他们做什么。

5. make a monkey (out) of somebody MAKE FUN OFto make someone seem stupid 使某人出丑，戏弄[愚弄]某人

6. a monkey on your back American EnglishAmE informalMDDDIFFICULT a serious problem that makes your life very difficult, especially being dependent on drugs 使生活艰难的沉重负担〔尤指药物依赖〕

Examples from the Corpus

monkey• It is an unspectacular-looking place of prefab houses and beehive-like cages where some 5,000 monkeys live and 35 employees work.• Under it I might have been a performing bear or a monkey on a chain.• Birds, snakes, lizards, fish and monkeys are wild animals which adapt badly to a caged life.• Then, as he placed the net on the table, the wildly chattering monkey grew quiet.• For example, area V4 in monkeys is specialized for processing colour information but doesn't encode other attributes like motion or position.• Stop that, you little monkey!• He convinced local landholders to give the monkeys safe haven by setting aside land as a preserve.

monkey2 verb