词汇 | owlish |
释义 | owlish adjective uk /ˈaʊ.lɪʃ/ us /ˈaʊ.lɪʃ/ A person who is owlish looks serious and intelligent and usually wears glasses: (人)长得似猫头鹰的,儒雅严肃的 He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.他一副很斯文的样子,坐在图书馆的一角。 Intelligence acuity acumen agility apt aptness brain grey matter gumption highbrow horse sense hyper-intelligent perceptively percipient percipiently perspicacious perspicaciously perspicacity profundity whip-smart wisdom Related wordowlishly Examples of owlishowlish The owlish academics so often forget the young. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to be more owlish or obtuse than is the norm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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