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wild-and-woolly

/wahyld-n-wool-ee/US // ˈwaɪld nˈwʊl i //

野生的和愚蠢的,野生的和可爱的,野生动物和野生动物,野生的和愚蠢的人

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.

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Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.

  • The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.

  • She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

  • No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

  • The white men served their smoking cannon with a wild energy that, for a time, made the gallant nine equal to a thousand.

  • A cricket-match was in progress, but the bowling and batting were extremely wild, thanks to The Warren strong beer.

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