foxy
英 ['fɒksɪ]
美 ['fɑksi]
英文詞源
- foxy (adj.)
- 1520s, "crafty, cunning," as foxes are, from fox (n.) + -y (2). Middle English had foxish in this sense (late 14c.). Of colors, stains, tints, etc. from 18c. Meaning "attractive" (of a woman) is from 1895, American English slang. Related: Foxiness.
The compiler of the "Brut" chronicle, complaining of English fashions in the time of Edward III, notes that þe wemmen ... were so strete cloþed þat þey lete hange fox tailes sawyd beneþe with-inforþ hire cloþis forto hele and heyde hire ars. That is, the women's clothing was so tight/scanty "that they let hang fox tails sewn inside their clothes at the back to ... hide their arses," the which behavior, he writes, perauenture afterward brougte forþe & encausid many mys-happis & mischeuys in þe reaume of Engelond.
雙語例句
- 1. He had wary, foxy eyes.
- 他的眼睛機警而又狡詐。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was a foxy old trader.
- 他是個老奸商.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. The FOXY Sensor system will change the way you work.
- FOXY傳感器係統將改變你的工作方式.
來自互聯網
- 4. Our FOXY probes range in thickness from sub - microns to a few microns.
- FOXY探測厚度從亞 微細 粒到幾個微米.
來自互聯網
- 5. What technical references are available in support of the FOXY Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors?
- 什麽技術參考支持FOXY光纖氧氣傳感器?
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