(pl. -eys)
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- a small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail, most kinds of which live in trees in tropical countries猴。
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- Families Cebidae and Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae) (New World monkeys, with prehensile tails), and Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys, without prehensile tails).卷尾猴科和绢毛猴科（具捕握尾）以及猴科（无捕握尾）。
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- (in general use) any primate猿（统称）。
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- a mischievous person, especially a child淘气鬼; 顽童：
where have you been, you little monkey!
你上哪儿去了, 你这小捣蛋！
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- figurative a person who is dominated or controlled by another (with reference to the monkey traditionally kept by an organ-grinder)〈喻〉受支配的人; 受控制的人。
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- Brit. informal a sum of £500〈英, 非正式〉500英镑。
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- （亦作monkey engine）a piledriving machine consisting of a heavy hammer or ram working vertically in a groove锤式打桩机。
(-eys, -eyed)no obj.(monkey about/around)
1- behave in a silly or playful way胡闹, 捣蛋。
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monkey with
tamper with瞎弄, 糊弄：don't monkey with that lock!
别瞎摆弄那把锁！
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- with obj. archaic ape; mimic〈古〉模仿, 学…的样。
短语
as artful（或clever）as a wagonload（或cartload）of monkeys
- Brit. informal extremely clever or mischievous〈英, 非正式〉十分机灵的; 十分淘气的。
make a monkey of（或out of）someone
- humiliate someone by making them appear ridiculous使出丑, 耍弄。
a monkey on one's back
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- informal a burdensome problem〈非正式〉沉重负担。
1.1
- a dependence on drugs毒瘾。
not give a monkey's
- informal be completely indifferent or unconcerned〈非正式〉全不在乎, 完全无所谓：
he doesn't give a monkey's what we think about him.
他毫不在乎我们对他的看法。
派生词
monkeyish
adjective词源
mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin, perhaps from Low German.