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foxy的意思
foxy
英 ['fks]
美 ['fɑksi]
- adj. 狡猾的；赤褐色的；如狐的
英文词源
- 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 e wemmen ... were so strete cloed at ey lete hange fox tailes sawyd benee with-infor hire clois 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 fore & encausid many mys-happis & mischeuys in e reaume of Engelond.
双语例句
- 1. He had wary, foxy eyes.
- 他的眼睛机警而又狡诈。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was a foxy old trader.
- 他是个老奸商.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 3. The FOXY Sensor system will change the way you work.
- FOXY传感器系统将改变你的工作方式.
来自互联网
- 4. Our FOXY probes range in thickness from sub - microns to a few microns.
- FOXY探测厚度从亚 微细 粒到几个微米.
来自互联网
- 5. What technical references are available in support of the FOXY Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors?
- 什么技术参考支持FOXY光纤氧气传感器?
来自互联网