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feral

/feer-uhl, fer-/US // ˈfɪər əl, ˈfɛr- //UK // (ˈfɪərəl, ˈfɛr-) //

野生的,野生,野外的,野外

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
    • : having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
    • : of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.

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Examples

  • Now in her 70s, Sharon Patrick calls people “dear” and “hon,” and enjoys talking about the feral cats she feeds on the South Side.

  • She trained horses on the side, landing a job trapping feral horses in Hawaii—and that led her to vet school.

  • The more feral horses from New Zealand play, for example, the better they survive their first year.

  • The first is feral cowardice — captured in the wild-eyed, hunted expression of Republican senators asked to comment on the president’s latest insane or destructive tweet.

  • It may be an exercise in delusion, but it’s still heartening to bask in these letters, to take this feral love for what it was at a freeze-frame moment in time.

  • Rather, she shows us: that spandex clad ass twerking in the jungle, surrounded by a feral pack of similarly well fed asses?

  • At the same time, playing an animal does require more feral-ness, so to speak.

  • The “Aduba double-take,” a phenomenon that fans of the show often fall victim to, is truly a testament to her feral performance.

  • But then, with their contorted physiques and feral grimaces they speak directly to the Basquiats.

  • Devastated, she climbed with feral intensity, hoping the baby might spontaneously abort.

  • How again does it explain reversion to long-lost characters and the resumption of feral characteristics?

  • In a feral state he would doubtless have left the herd and become a solitary wanderer.

  • An old hunter then mounted a tame elephant, went up to the feral one, seized his ear and ordered him to lie down.

  • Furthermore, they are all comparatively large, and if they ever become feral in England, it will not be for many years to come.

  • The bright feral light of the super-mongoose's eyes seemed to lance at Sowles, like an infra-red flash.