单词 | jackal |
释义 | jackal Animalsjack·al /ˈdʒækɔːl, -kəl $ -kəl/ noun [countableC] HBAa wild animal like a dog that lives in Asia and Africa and eats the remaining parts of dead animals 豺,胡狼〔生活在亚洲和非洲〕 Examples from the Corpus jackal• Careful historians, incidentally, warn us that it could not be a fox, but must have been a jackal.• Gustave washed his face in a canvas pail; a jackal howled; he smoked a pipe.• And Urien follows him still, brother jackals, playing at being lions.• Relieved to have grass underfoot silencing his blithe escape, Laverne glances back with all the charm of a lowly jackal.• the jackals of Wall Street• The jackal as Anubis presided over mummification and was lord and protector of cemeteries. (1600-1700) Turkish çakal, from Persian shagal, from Sanskrit srgala |
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