单词 | hawk |
释义 | hawk, Policies Birdshawk1 /hɔːk $ hɒːk/ noun [countableC] 1. HBBa large bird that hunts and eats small birds and animals 鹰 2. PPPWARa politician who believes in using military force 鹰派人物,主战派人物 OPP dove 3. watch somebody like a hawk LOOK ATto watch someone very carefully 仔细打量某人;严密监视某人 Examples from the Corpus watch somebody like a hawk• He seemed to be watching her like a hawk, waiting for some reaction.• Today, more than usual, he had been watching them like a hawk.• Kruger is watching them like a hawk!• They're watching me like hawks here.• Parents should watch their kids like a hawk for sunburns.• And it's putting me off, having you watching me like a hawk all the time. 4. have eyes like a hawk NOTICEto be quick to notice things, especially small details 目光锐利;具有鹰一般敏锐的眼力 Examples from the Corpus hawk• And when a hawk meets a hawk?• California growers have found that enlisting the aid of hawks and owls is relatively simple.• On this argument, the hawks have found an unlikely ally: the Clinton administration.• The past is the hawk, flying higher; its talons are stronger, its wings wide and majestic.• I knew how the mouse felt when the hawk seized it.• The hawks in the government would never permit any talks with the enemy.• the hawks in the President's cabinet• The hawk was sacred to her, and was used to depict her symbolically in art.• More fundamental were his experiments with hawks, in which he fed them meat contained in small cages. hawk2 verb 1. [transitiveT]SELL to try to sell goods, usually by going from place to place and trying to persuade people to buy them 〔到处〕叫卖,兜售 2. [intransitiveI, transitiveT]HBH to cough up phlegm 咳出(痰) Examples from the Corpus hawk• It swoops low, hawking, across the hillside, over the fort and out into the mists of Corve Dale.• Most people know that they hawk and feed on other flies.• The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.• Gregarious, flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics.• Bob Hope, for instance, came on the J. C. Penney shopping channel to hawk his new book.• A man on the corner was hawking T-shirts and souvenirs.• Contraceptives are hawked through the print media and on billboards. From Longman Business Dictionary hawkhawk1 /hɔːkhɒːk/ noun [countableC] a politician or official who believes in using force or firm action when dealing with problems, rather than a more peaceful approach → compare doveMr George has a reputation as a hawk on inflation. He has always been a deficit hawk (=a politician who wants to reduce the amount of money the government owes). —hawkish adjectiveadj hawkish political leaders hawkhawk2 verb [transitiveT] 1journalism to sell an ex-athlete who now hawks exercise equipment 2disapproving to try to make people interested in something or to try to make them buy something He’s been on every chat show hawking his new movie. Old English hafoc hawk2 1. (1500-1600) hawker 2. (1500-1600) Probably from the sound |
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