| 单词 | hyena |
| 释义 | hyena noun[C] uk/haɪˈiː.nə/us/haɪˈiː.nə/awildanimalfromAfricaandAsiathatlookslike adog,huntsingroups, and makes asoundsimilarto ahumanlaugh 鬣狗 Gail Shotlander/Moment/GettyImages Canines (dogs)
hyena| American Dictionaryhyena noun[C] us/hɑɪˈi·nə/awildanimalofAfricaandAsiathatlookslike adogand makes alaughingsound Examplesofhyenahyena It is not as dramatic as thehyenacalls. From theCambridge English Corpus Can you say you moved from ethology to ethnography, from mechanical things likehyenagnawing to more demanding patters of human behaviour? From theCambridge English Corpus In social facilitation experiments with hyenas in captivity, when one individual drinks, the probability that an observing individual will drink in the next few minutes is 70%. From theCambridge English Corpus But if all such judgments were made in terms of mere perceptual similarity, one would expect warthogs and hyenas to be put together in one category and lions in another. From theCambridge English Corpus The hollowing out of my four local stations has got the hyenas circling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This campaign, which featured the imaginative use of hyenas, was continued during 1993, and another "burst" of it is planned again soon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If it does make losses then the party opposite will howl like hyenas about the way nationalisation fails and has failed in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Cannot you bring the hyenas on the other side to order? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is perhaps one reason for not describing people as hyenas and baboons when one says one wants to negotiate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Those hungry hyenas will not cooperate with him otherwise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Every child that has gone down to its grave is the result of the policy which you have supported with this grinninghyenain front of you. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Reference is made to the burrowing dog, which is a kind ofhyena. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, in nature, wolves, jackals, hyenas, other groups of dogs, and so on, pursue other animals quite cruelly and persistently wherever nature is left to itself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 When farming falls upon difficult times it seems as though a pack of wolves or hyenas gather round the farming community and try to pull it even further down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The palace overlooks the sanctuary, which is a reserve for reptiles, tigers, nilgai, sambhar, wild boars, hyenas, panthers, and jackals. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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