英语释义

• covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments;

  "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"

• confused and vague; used especially of thinking;

  "muddleheaded ideas"

  "your addled little brain"

  "woolly thinking"

  "woolly-headed ideas"

• having a fluffy character or appearance

• covered with dense often matted or curly hairs;

  "woolly lambs"

片语

woolly bats彩蝠属

Woolly Geranium东北老鹳草

Woolly Pike羊毛梭子鱼

woolly undercoat绒毛底层

Woolly Thoctar粗茸索塔兽

woolly hair羊毛状发

woolly knot蓬松根节

woolly mammoth猛犸象；长毛象

woolly monkey绒毛猴

woolly aphid secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

同义词： woolly plant louse

英汉例句

• its concepts are woolly and untestable yet are regarded as unassailable axioms.

  它的概念模糊而不可测试，但却自视为公理而无懈可击。

• this animal hide covered framework was partially supported and braced with woolly mammoth bones.

  这种兽皮覆盖的架构部分由羊毛包裹的猛犸骨骼支撑。

• his clothes were dark and he wore a woolly jumper.

  他的外套是暗色的的，穿了一件羊毛套衫。

• 「what are you doing?」 asked theodore, pulling his woolly scarf over his chilly nose.

  当看见熊爸爸拉着梯子，从雪堆前费力地走过时，小熊西奥多拉起毛茸茸的围巾捂住冰凉的鼻子，然后开口问道，「您在干什么？」

• this year, p??bo and colleagues announced they had almost finished sequencing the genome of a neanderthal (other researchers completed a rough draft of the genome of the extinct woolly mammoth).

  今年，帕珀和同事宣布，他们几乎已经完成对尼安德特人基因组排序的工作，另外还完成了对已经灭绝的史前庞然大物猛犸象基因组的初步排序。

• the conservative critique of mr obama is that he is jimmy carter redux: a woolly idealist who thinks he can sweet-talk bad guys into behaving.

  对奥巴马的保守批评说他是吉米?卡特的回归：一个糊涂的理想主义者，认为能够用漂亮话让恶棍弃恶从善。

• i recognised the smaller one from the day before as he was once again wearing a woolly hat despite the heat.

  我认出那个小一点的就是昨天看见过的，因为尽管天气很热，他还是戴了一顶绒线帽。

• these animals are descended from wild mountain sheep, still found in some remote regions of the world, which shed their fine woolly hair naturally.

  这些羊都是野山羊的后代，在世界上一些偏远地区仍有野山羊，他们都是自然脱掉细羊毛的。

• the woolly mammoth was a smaller furrier beast, that lived in the north closer to the glaciers of the ice ages, from alaska through canada, and east to the great lakes and new england.

  长毛猛犸是一种生活在冰河时期北部冰川附近的较小型长毛动物，分布范围从阿拉斯加穿越加拿大，东至大西洋和新英格兰。

• mr balls, like him a former disciple of mr brown, is thought to disdain his woolly line on the deficit.

  鲍尔斯先生，和他一样曾是布朗先生的信徒，鄙视他对于赤字的模糊立场。

• back home, we undress at bedtime; here, we put on more clothes - including woolly hats and gloves - before going to sleep.

  在英国的时候，上床时要脱掉衣服；在这儿，睡之前要穿得更多——包括戴上毛线帽子和手套。

• the elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last ice age.

  一般认为全身多毛的猛犸象灭绝于上一个冰河世纪，而大象是现存的与猛犸象亲缘关系最近的动物。

• congress happily pays for weapons but despises weaselly diplomats and woolly development aid, yet they are vital to ensuring that arms stay sheathed.

  国会乐于为武器买单，鄙视狡猾的外交手腕和模糊不清的经济发展援助，但有了这些却对缓和军事沖突意义重大，可以保证双方刀不出鞘就解决问题。

• blair「s style notions were put to the test when he was asked to choose a pair of women」s shoes to match grey shorts and a woolly jumper.

  布莱尔还当场接受了一个时尚品位测试，为一条灰色短裤和一件套头羊毛衫配一双鞋。

• but finally, just before the dawn rose in the eastern sky, rita had convinced him that woolly was the best choice.

  最后，就在复活节的天空呈现出第一缕玫瑰色的阳光时，rita让他确信，woolly就是最好的选择。

• in 1966 mr lalanne sent a herd of 24 woolly ones to the salon de la jeune peinture.

  1966年，拉兰内先生就把一群羊毛做的绵羊带到了热内绘画沙龙上。

• others believe that west europeans were eager to shift the blame for the recession, first to wall street and then to their wild and woolly east.

  另外一些人相信西欧人非常迫切地要转移经济衰退的责任，首先是华尔街，其次是他们偏远糊涂的东欧兄弟。

• by improving their hunting techniques, early humans seem to have played a major role in finishing off the woolly mammoths and nine other mammal species that weighed over a tonne.

  利用改进了的狩猎技术，早期人类似乎扮演了终结者的角色，使长毛猛犸和其他九种超过一吨的哺乳动物彻底从地球上消失。

• i don’t know what is woolly about asking people about their lives; you can measure these things.

  我不知道确切要求人们对他们的生活哪一方面，你可以衡量这些东西。

• cutting a forlorn figure in pigtails, glasses and woolly hat, miss chavez told reporters it was her childhood dream to go to the wedding and that her campaign was inspired by the late princess diana.

  扎着发辫儿、带着眼镜及绒线帽，看上去消瘦的查韦斯小姐告诉记者，参加王室婚礼是她的童年的梦想，她的这次活动的灵感来源于已故王妃戴安娜。

• to some, the arched snout and horns of skeletal ice age woolly rhinoceroses suggested not a vast land mammal, but the beak and claws of a giant bird.

  对于某些人来说，冰河世纪毛犀牛的拱鼻和角并不意味着这种大型陆地哺乳动物，却是巨型鸟类的喙和爪。

• and for good reason. with hunting likely to have been an intermittent diversion, effective foraging would have been crucial to tiding early humans over to the next woolly mammoth.

  而出于此理由，狩猎可能变成了一种间歇性的活动，而有效的搜集活动对于帮助早期人类渡过冰河时期起到了关键作用。

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