wags

英 [wæɡz]

美 [wæɡz]

v.  (狗)摇，摆动(尾巴); (狗尾巴)摇，摆动; 摇(头或手指，常表示不赞成); 逃学
wag的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摇动，摇摆(尾巴)
  When a dogwagsits tail, it repeatedly waves its tail from side to side.
  1. The dog was biting, growling and wagging its tail.
     这条狗撕咬着，咆哮着，摇晃着尾巴。
• VERB (通常指由于厌恶而)左右摇晃(手指)
  If youwagyour finger, you shake it repeatedly and quickly from side to side, usually because you are annoyed with someone.
  1. He wagged a disapproving finger...
     他摇晃着手指表示不同意。
  2. She wagged a finger under his nose in a taunting gesture.
     她当着他的面嘲弄地摇晃着手指。
• VERB (常指因不高兴而)摇(头)
  If youwagyour head, you move it from side to side, often because you are unhappy about a situation.
  1. He wags his head unhappily.
     他不高兴地摇着头。
• N-COUNT 爱说笑的人；幽默的人
  Awagis someone who makes jokes.
  1. He's a bit of a wag, his dad...
     他爸爸这个人说话相当风趣。
  2. There was a moose head on the wall. Some wag had put a cigarette in its mouth.
     墙上挂着一个驼鹿头。某个爱搞笑的人在它的嘴里放了一支香烟。
• PHRASE 嚼舌头;议论纷纷
  Iftongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
  1. What set tongues wagging was the age difference between the two partners.
     这对伴侣年龄上的差异招来了不少闲话。
• the tail is wagging the dog→ see:tail

双语例句

• Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye.
  她摇动着高昂的包着头巾的头，转动着她的灰暗的眼睛。
• There are other culture phenomena linked to white-collar consumption, such as conspicuous consumption etc, by which thinking wags are provided for guiding us to analyze the social consumption culture.
  以这一实质为线索，我们看到炫耀型消费、白领追随型消费与白领消费文化的相关特征，为我们全面认识当今社会的消费文化打开了思路。
• He wags his finger disapprovingly as he extols his view of the state's role in business.
  他一边赞扬着国家对商业的作用，一边不以为然地摇摇手指。
• When It's happy, it wags its tail.
  当它高兴的时候，它会摇摆它的尾巴。
• During the2006 World Cup the press gave increasing coverage to the socialising and shopping activities of the English WAGs, who were based in the German town of Baden Baden.
  2006年世界杯期间，英国球员“太太团”驻扎在德国小镇巴登-巴登，媒体对她们的社交和购物活动做了大量的报道。
• Back in the early stages of the financial crisis, wags joked that our trade with China had turned out to be fair and balanced after all: They sold us poison toys and tainted seafood;
  回想这场金融危机的初期，一些爱开玩笑的人曾说，我们与中国的贸易最终演变成了一场公正而又公平的交易：他们向我们出售有毒的玩具和污染的海产品；
• This paper is on the basis of analysing the necessity of reallocating function of social security at present, and proposes the policy suggestion to perfect further the wags and means If reallocating the income in the system of social security.
  本文在分析了目前发挥社会保障再分配作用必要性的基础上，提出了进一步完善作为收入再分配方式和手段的社会保障制度的政策建议。
• The importance of surface modification of solid has been illustrated by its applications in coating, printing ink, rubber, plastics, and in many other wags.
  本文通过日常生活中的例子以及改性粉体在涂料、油墨和橡塑体系中的应用实例来说明表面改性的重要性。
• The current account tail wags the economic dog – this being a mirror image of what I think has happened in the US over the past decade.
  经常账户的尾巴摇动了经济之狗&这是我能想到的美国在过去十年中发生的真实写照。
• China wags its finger over the perils of unregulated communications.
  中国则对其毫无监管的通讯交流的危险摇了摇头。