| 单词 | wildcat |
| 释义 | wildcatWord family nounwildingwildnesswild cardwildcatwildcatterwildfirewildfowlwildfowlerwildfowlingwildlandwildlifewildwoodadjectivewildishwildadverbwildly Animals wild·cat1 /ˈwaɪldkæt/ noun [countableC] HBAa type of cat that looks similar to a pet cat and lives in mountains, forests etc 〔生活在山区、森林等中的〕野猫 Examples from the Corpus wildcat• Tiny though she was compared with her assailant, she fought like a wildcat.• I left in the middle of the big wildcat of 1976, and I suppose it was a cowardly thing to do.• A third of wildcat populations had declined in recent years, and only 8 percent were increasing.• Then I changed my mind, and I began to hate the wildcats.• Interbreeding with feral cats is probably the biggest threat to the wildcat.• In a way, the wildcats were beginning to work. Gas, coal, oil wildcat2 verb (wildcatted, wildcatting) [intransitiveI] American EnglishAmETPG to look for oil in a place where nobody has found any yet 勘探[钻探]石油 —wildcatter noun [countableC] From Longman Business Dictionary wildcatwild·cat1 /ˈwaɪldkæt/ adjectiveadj [only before a noun] American EnglishAmE a wildcat oil well or discovery of oil is one that is in a place where no one has found oil before wildcatwildcat2 verb [intransitiveI] American EnglishAmE to look for oil in a place where no one has found it yet —wildcatter noun [countableC] Oklahoma wildcatters struck oil in the late 1920s. |
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