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skulking

/skuhlk/US // skʌlk //UK // (skʌlk) //

偷偷摸摸,偷偷摸摸的,潜伏,潜行

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
    • : to move in a stealthy manner; slink: The panther skulked through the bush.
    • : British. to shirk duty; malinger.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who skulks.
    • : a pack or group of foxes.
    • : Rare. an act or instance of skulking.

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Examples

  • Later in the spring, she and Elisabeth saw another kind of heron, an American bittern, skulking in some grass by a swamp.

  • The skulking, strutting, mincing, hurrying forms that pass us and fade out into the night are now becoming characters.

  • Life would not be very valuable to me as a skulking criminal in a foreign country.

  • I—vagabond—outcast—skulking through tricks to avoid crime—why the difference?

  • Skulking cats were flushed there, and sent flying over aristocratic bones, but there was no trace of Bobby.

  • But that is an out-of-the-way part, Jack, and there may be some of those skulking thieves hanging about there.