贰靶汉英词典

cry wolf

C 开头单词

基本解释

  • 发假警报；谎报军情

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Don't cry wolf unless you really need help.
    意思是：除非你真的需要帮助，不然不要发“狼来了”的假警报。
  • To cry wolf is to give false alarm. It comes from the fable of the shepherd boy who often called "wolf" to make fun of the neighbors.
    喊狼来了就是发假警报。它来源于一个牧童的寓言。他经常喊狼来了，以此捉弄邻居。
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  • “I don’t want to cry wolf on this, ” said Dr. John M. Kittelson, a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the University of Colorado Denver.
    科罗拉多丹佛大学生命统计及信信息学院的教授凯特林博士说：“我可不想当喊狼来了的那个家伙。”

    • 原声例句

  • The cry of a wolf brought the picture of the old moose back to him again.

    • 权威例句

  • Trade-liberalisation rounds are arcane affairs about which free-traders are often thought to cry wolf.
    ECONOMIST: Trade and poverty
  • Like the boy in the cry-wolf fable, you just get to a point where no one believes you.
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词组短语

    短语

  • cry y wolf 发出假警报;发假情报
  • the cry of wolf 假警报
  • Cry -Wolf 哭泣杀狼
  • a cry of wolf 危然耸听
  • cry wolf Ass 发出假警报

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • to keep asking for help when you do not need it, with the result that people think you do not need help when you really need it