be a weasel
用于贬义,形容某人奸诈。
Don't trust him; he's a weasel.
别信他,他是个狡猾的人。
鼬;黄鼠狼
奸诈的人;鬼鬼祟祟的人;被认为奸诈或鬼鬼祟祟的人;小型食肉哺乳动物,腿短,身体和颈部细长;鼬鼠;狡猾的人
a small carnivorous mammal with a long slender body and short legs
被认为奸诈或鬼鬼祟祟的人
a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky
小型食肉哺乳动物,腿短,身体和颈部细长
small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck
I thought he was honest, but he turned out to be a weasel who gossips about everyone.
我以为他很诚实,结果他却是个爱说闲话的奸诈小人。
用法提示:这里 weasel 是名词,作表语,指奸诈或鬼鬼祟祟的人。
The landlord behaved like a weasel, not answering our calls all week.
房东表现得像个滑头,整整一周都不接我们的电话。
用法提示:这里 weasel 是名词,用于 like a weasel,比喻逃避责任、不直率的人。
After the meeting, she called her coworker a weasel for taking credit for her idea.
会后,她因为同事抢了她的功劳而称对方是个奸诈小人。
用法提示:这里 weasel 是名词,作宾语补足语,指狡猾、不可信的人。
用于贬义,形容某人奸诈。
Don't trust him; he's a weasel.
别信他,他是个狡猾的人。
直接指责对方狡猾或告密。
The boss called the accountant a weasel for hiding the figures.
老板称会计为奸诈小人,因为他隐瞒了数据。
形容偷偷摸摸的行为。
He acted like a weasel, slipping out the back door when no one was looking.
他像只鼬鼠一样溜出后门,趁没人注意时。
比 weasel 语气更重,强调阴险狠毒和背叛;常指伪装友善却暗算他人的人。
侧重指背信弃义、出卖同伴的人,也可指告密者;比 weasel 更强调不忠和卑鄙。
强调令人厌恶、卑鄙下流,语气较粗俗;不如 weasel 常用,且更侧重讨厌而非狡诈。
较正式或文学化,指一贯不诚实、无耻的人;不像 weasel 那样强调鬼祟和逃避。
侧重行为偷偷摸摸、不光明正大,但不一定背叛;比 weasel 少一层奸诈意味。
grammar · medium
易错句子He is weasel because he told the teacher.
正确表达He is a weasel because he told the teacher.
weasel 作为可数名词指人时,单数形式前必须加不定冠词 a;汉语没有冠词,学习者容易遗漏。
grammar · medium
易错句子They are all weasel in the office.
正确表达They are all weasels in the office.
weasel 的复数形式是 weasels,需要加 -s;汉语名词复数没有词形变化,学习者可能忘记加 -s。
对应 weasel 的引申义“奸诈、鬼鬼祟祟的人”;straight arrow 指为人正直、光明磊落、值得信赖的人,与该引申义相反,二者不可互换用于动物本义。
weasel侧重狡猾和推卸责任,rat强调背叛和告密行为
weasel指狡猾且善于逃避责任的人,sneak强调行为隐秘、不光明正大
weasel着重于狡猾和推诿,snake强调阴险和不可信任
伶鼬(最小的鼬类)
The least weasel is one of the smallest carnivores in the world.
伶鼬是世界上最小的食肉动物之一。
长尾鼬
A long-tailed weasel ran across the path in front of us.
一只长尾鼬从我们面前的小路上跑了过去。
鼬科
Otters, badgers, and wolverines all belong to the weasel family.
水獭、獾和狼獾都属于鼬科动物。
鬼鬼祟祟的家伙
Stop being such a sneaky weasel and tell me the truth.
别这么鬼鬼祟祟的,跟我说实话。
逃避(责任);耍花招摆脱
She always finds a way to weasel out of doing her share of the work.
她总有办法逃避做自己那份工作。
模棱两可的话;推诿之辞
The report is full of weasel words, so nobody knows what they actually plan to do.
这份报告满是模棱两可的话,没人知道他们到底打算做什么。
我能像黄鼠狼吸食鸡蛋一样,从歌曲中汲取忧郁。
In Shakespeare's As You Like It, the melancholy lord Jaques uses this simile about a weasel to describe how he drains emotion from a song.
在莎士比亚的《皆大欢喜》中,忧郁的贵族杰奎斯用这个关于黄鼠狼的比喻来形容他从歌曲中汲取情感。
钱就是这样花掉的,砰!黄鼠狼跑了。
This line comes from the British nursery rhyme 'Pop! Goes the Weasel', whose meaning is still debated.
这句歌词出自英国儿歌《砰!黄鼠狼跑了》,其含义至今仍有争论。
发长 /iː/ 音 (如 sea, tea)
Same pattern, same sound
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