foxy
英 ['f?ks?]
美['fɑksi]
- adj. 狡猾的；赤褐色的；如狐的
暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
比較級:?foxier;最高級:?foxiest;
英文詞源
- foxy (adj.)
- 1520s, "crafty, cunning," as foxes are, from fox (n.) + -y (2). Middle English had foxish in this sense (late 14c.). Of colors, stains, tints, etc. from 18c. Meaning "attractive" (of a woman) is from 1895, American English slang. Related: Foxiness.
The compiler of the "Brut" chronicle, complaining of English fashions in the time of Edward III, notes that te wemmen ... were so strete cloted tat tey lete hange fox tailes sawyd benete with-infort hire clotis forto hele and heyde hire ars. That is, the women's clothing was so tight/scanty "that they let hang fox tails sewn inside their clothes at the back to ... hide their arses," the which behavior, he writes, perauenture afterward brougte forte & encausid many mys-happis & mischeuys in te reaume of Engelond.
雙語例句
- 1. He had wary, foxy eyes.
- 他的眼睛機(jī)警而又狡詐。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was a foxy old trader.
- 他是個(gè)老奸商.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. The FOXY Sensor system will change the way you work.
- FOXY傳感器系統(tǒng)將改變你的工作方式.
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- 4. Our FOXY probes range in thickness from sub - microns to a few microns.
- FOXY探測厚度從亞 微細(xì) 粒到幾個(gè)微米.
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- 5. What technical references are available in support of the FOXY Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors?
- 什么技術(shù)參考支持FOXY光纖氧氣傳感器?
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