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单词 aprowl
释义

aprowl

English

Etymology

a- + prowl

Adjective

aprowl (not comparable)

  1. Prowling.
    • 1882, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “Little Robin Redbreast” in Mother Goose for Grown Folks, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, revised and enlarged edition, p. 158,
      A quick, bold pair, that scampers fair, is
      part of the saving plan,
      And a match for the pad
      Aprowl on the pitiless four, lad!
    • 1920, Marian Storm, “A Woodland Valentine” in Minstrel Weather, New York: Harper, p. 7,
      Better to stay behind the frozen gate than to come too early up into the realms where the wolves of cold are still aprowl.
    • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: The Modern Library, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 113,
      He was a stranger, and as he sought through the house, he was always aprowl to find some entrance into life, some secret undiscovered door—a stone, a leaf,—that might admit him into light and fellowship.
    • 1995, Gore Vidal, “FDR: Love on the Hudson” in Virgin Islands, London: André Deutsch, 1997, p. 123,
      She was intelligent but not clever; drawn to quack doctors, numerologists, astrologists; she also knew that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln was constantly aprowl in the White House.
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