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词汇 hyena
释义 hyena
noun[ C ]
uk /haɪˈiː.nə/ us /haɪˈiː.nə/
a wild animal from Africa and Asia that looks like a dog, hunts in groups, and makes a sound similar to a human laugh鬣狗
 
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hyena | American Dictionary


hyena
noun[ C ]
us/hɑɪˈi·nə/
a wild animal of Africa and Asia that looks like a dog and makes a laughing sound

Examples of hyena


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It is not as dramatic as the hyena calls.
In social facilitation experiments with hyenas in captivity, when one individual drinks, the probability that an observing individual will drink in the next few minutes is 70%.
But if all such judgments were made in terms of mere perceptual similarity, one would expect warthogs and hyenas to be put together in one category and lions in another.
The hollowing out of my four local stations has got the hyenas circling.
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This campaign, which featured the imaginative use of hyenas, was continued during 1993, and another "burst" of it is planned again soon.
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If it does make losses then the party opposite will howl like hyenas about the way nationalisation fails and has failed in the past.
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Cannot you bring the hyenas on the other side to order?
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It is perhaps one reason for not describing people as hyenas and baboons when one says one wants to negotiate.
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Those hungry hyenas will not cooperate with him otherwise.
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Every child that has gone down to its grave is the result of the policy which you have supported with this grinning hyena in front of you.
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Reference is made to the burrowing dog, which is a kind of hyena.
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Of course, in nature, wolves, jackals, hyenas, other groups of dogs, and so on, pursue other animals quite cruelly and persistently wherever nature is left to itself.
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When farming falls upon difficult times it seems as though a pack of wolves or hyenas gather round the farming community and try to pull it even further down.
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The palace overlooks the sanctuary, which is a reserve for reptiles, tigers, nilgai, sambhar, wild boars, hyenas, panthers, and jackals.
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Predators of the greater kudu generally consist of lions, leopards, hyenas, and hunting dogs.
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