Slink

(verb.) walk stealthily; 'I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey'.

录入:罗莎莉

• Why should she slink about as if it were she who had disgraced herself? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Why should I slink away without having carried out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It had been the calling of his life to slink and skulk and dog and waylay, and he knew his calling well. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His movements were graceful, yet curiously abject, slinking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He had a strange furtive pride and slinking singleness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Mr Merdle was slinking about the hearthrug, waiting to welcome Mrs Sparkler. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A man came slinking along, went into the hut, gave a cry as if he had seen a ghost, and legged it as hard as he could run until he was out of sight. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• So secretive and active and anxious the young woman seemed, so reluctant, slinking, the young man. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They had a peculiar way of doggedly slinking round the corner, as if they were eternally going to the pawnbroker's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• On, on they came until Kerchak himself slunk stealthily to the very door and peered within. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Slowly the launch drifted round in a pathetic, clumsy circle, and slunk away to the land, retreating into the dimness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Do you think I would leave her alone to face the music while I slunk away? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His yellow face turned to a more deadly colour when he saw the Captain, and he slunk back guiltily into the inmost parlour. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He slunk away with a livid face and two venomous eyes which uttered more threats than his tongue could do. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• So Boucher slunk back again to his house. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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