a wolf in sheep’s clothing• If ever there was a wolf in sheep's clothing this Bill is it.
3keep the wolf from the doorSURVIVEto earn just enough money to buy the basic things you need 勉强维持生计
I work part-time in a coffee shop just to keep the wolf from the door.
我在一家咖啡馆打零工,勉强糊口。
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keep the wolf from the door• But it was worth it to keep the wolves from the door.• No sign of any more money than is needed to keep the wolf from the door.
wolf• a pack of wolves• A wild cat passes near, somebodyspots a yak, there is talk of a new plague of wolves.• They were shown to a small table in the corner, next to a life-sized plasterwolf.• The wolf: A wicked, clever, hungry, talking wolf.• So the wolf tried to climb down through the chimney.• And, of course, there were the wolves.• The wolf was so full, in fact, that he could not fit out through the exit again.• The wolvesclustered around the base of the tree looked up with interest at their next meal talking to himself.
pack of wolves• Puppies will herdhens in a farmyard, just as a pack of wolves will encircle an ailingprey.• The genes in a pack of wolves don't all stand to gain from the same set of events in the future.• A pack of wolves is not.• Men prowled the motel like packs of wolvessearching out easy prey.• It is not true of the pack of wolves.
wolf2 (also wolf down) verb [transitiveT]
informalEAT to eat something very quickly, swallowing it in big pieces 狼吞虎咽地吃SYN gobble
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wolf• Jim changed quickly, took out some clothes for the next morning, then wolfed down his dinner.• And it was wolfed down like fast food, digested with a raucousburp.• I wolfed down my lunch, charming a second helping out of the all-smiles stewardess.• Gao Mawolfed down ome leftoverrice and walked out on to the sandbar behind his house, till feeling emptyinside.• Nathan returned his attention to his notes and began to eat, wolfing down the food.• She and Miguel wolfed down three pieces.• But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standardfavourite of bakedbeans, burgers and ice-cream.• Liberated, Ethel frisked with a Jack Russell in a red, spotted scarf and wolfed up a half-eaten beefburgerbun.
ADJECTIVE | ... OF WOLVES | WOLF + VERB | WOLF + NOUNADJECTIVE➤lone孤狼◇A lone wolf howled under the full moon.一匹孤狼在滿月下嗥叫。➤wild野狼➤hungry (oftenfigurative) 餓狼▸➤ravening, ravenous (especially NAmE, both usuallyfigurative) 餓狼◇She compared the media to a pack of ravening / ravenous wolves.她把媒體比作一群餓狼。➤big bad (figurative) 邪惡的大灰狼◇Labour groups are often seen as the big bad wolf.勞工組織常常被看作邪惡的大灰狼。... OF WOLVES➤pack一群狼WOLF + VERB➤growl, howl狼嚎▸➤hunt狼獵食➤raise sb狼養育某人◇a story of a young boy raised by wolves一個被狼養大的小男孩的故事WOLF + NOUN➤cub狼崽▸➤pack狼群