wild
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
美 /ˈwaːld/|[ˈwaːld]
英文释义
名词 n.
- Alternative form of weald.
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The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
— After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
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A wilderness.
— 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
动词 v.
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To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
— ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding". "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...
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(In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
— They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.
形容词 adj.
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Untamed; not domesticated.; Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
— Near-synonym: indigenous
- Untamed; not domesticated.; Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
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From or relating to wild creatures.
— wild honey
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Unrestrained or uninhibited.
— I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
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Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
— The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
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Of unregulated and varying frequency.
— The aircraft's navigational equipment should not be powered from the wild AC bus except in an emergency, as its computers can be damaged by variations in electrical frequency.
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Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
— Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
- Furious; very angry.
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Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
— After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
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Enthusiastic.
— I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
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Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
— The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
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Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
— a wild roadstead
- Hard to steer.
- Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
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Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
— Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!
- Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
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Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
— In this card game, aces are wild: they can take the place of any other card.
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Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
— a wild track; wild sound
副词 adv.
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Inaccurately; not on target.
— The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
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Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
— Let's record it wild.
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African wild ass
African wild donkey
American wild plum
Asian wild horse
buck wild
common wild oat
deuces wild
go wild
half-wild
hog-wild
Mongolian wild horse
run wild
semi-wild
Somali wild ass
sow wild oats
sow one's wild oats
take a walk on the wild side
walk on the wild side
wild allspice
wild almond
wild and woolly
wild and wooly
wild aneth
wild-animal
wild animal
wild as a Tuckernuck steer
wild as a wet hen
wild asparagus
wild-ass
wild ass
wild bachelor's button
wild bachelor's-button
wild balsam apple
wild basil
wild bergamot
wild betel
wild blueberry
wild blue yonder
wild boar
wild buckwheat
wild bugloss
wild cabbage
wild candytuft
wild cane
wild card
wildcard
wild-card
wild carrot
wildcat
wildcat strike
wildcatter
Wild Cattle Creek
wild-cat
wild cat
wild-caught
wild celery
wild chamomile
wild cherry
wild chicory
wild child
wild cotton
wildcrafting
wild cucumber
wild cumin
wild custard apple
wild dill
wild dog
Wild Dog Valley
wild drake
wild duck
wildebeest
wild eggplant
wild elder
wilden
wild endive
wilder
wilderness
wildest
wild-eyed
wild feed
wildfire
wildflower
wild flower
wildfowl
wild foxtail millet
wild garlic
wild geranium
wild ginger
wild goat
wild goose
wild-goose plum
wild guess
wild haggis
wild hair
wild horse
wild hyacinth
wild indigo
wilding
wild ipecacuanha
wild Irishman
wildish
wild land
wild leek
wild lettuce
wild licorice
wild life
wildlife
wild lily-of-the-valley
wild line
wild loquat
wildly
wild mammee
wild mango
wild mangosteen
wild man syndrome
wild man
wild-man
wild mare's milk
wild marjoram
wild mint
wild mustard
wildness
wild oat
wild oats
wild olive
wild onion
wild orange
wild out
wild ox
wild pansy
wild passionfruit
wild pellitory
wild pieplant
wild pig
wild pigeon
wild pig syndrome
wild pink
wild pitch
wild plantain
wild plum
wild pointer
wild potato
wild potato vine
wild purslane
wild radish
wild rhubarb
wild rice
wild river
wild rosemary
wild rue
wild rye
wild senna
wild service tree
wild soursop
wild Spaniard
wild spinach
wild stonecrop
wild strawberry
wildstyle
wild succory
wild sweet potato
wild swimming
wild Syrian rue
wild take
wild teasel
wild thing
wild thyme
wild tobacco
wild track
wild turkey
wild turmeric
wild type
wild-type
wild vanilla
wild weasel
wild wee
Wild West
wild woman
wildwood
wild yam
in the wild
call of the wild
词源
From Middle English weilde, wield, wielde, wijlde, wild, wilde, wyld, wylde, wyled, wyyld, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wil (“wild”), Saterland Frisian wíeld, wüüld (“wild”), West Frisian wyld (“wild”), Bavarian wüd (“wild”), Central Franconian weld (“wild”), Cimbrian bill (“crazy, mad; wild; stupid”), Dutch, German, and Low German wild (“wild”), Luxembourgish wëll (“wild; savage”), Vilamovian wyłd (“wild”), Yiddish ווילד (vild, “wild; savage”), Danish and Swedish vild (“wild”), Faroese villur (“wild”), Icelandic villtur (“wild; lost; barbaric, savage; uncultivated; untamed”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vill (“wild”), vill (“lost”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wilþeis, “wild”); also Cornish gwlan (“wool”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic olann (“wool”), Manx ollan (“wool”), Welsh gwlân (“wool”), Latin vellus (“fleece, wool”), villus (“hair, shaggy hair”), Ancient Greek λάχνη (lákhnē, “woolly hair; thin hair; soft nap or pile on cloth; quills hedgehog; leafage”), Lithuanian valai (“hair of the horse tail”), Belarusian во́лас (vólas, “single hair”), Czech and Slovak vlas (“single hair”), Macedonian влас (vlas, “fluff; thread (of hair)”), Polish włos (“single hair”), Russian and Ukrainian во́лос (vólos, “single hair”), Serbo-Croatian вла̑с, vlȃs (“single hair”), Slovene las (“hair on top of head; nap, pile”), Armenian գեղմ (geġm, “fleece, wool”), Central Kurdish پرچ (pirç, “fax, headhair”), Northern Kurdish hirî (“wool”), Persian گرس (gors, “curl, ringlet; braid”), Hittite 𒋠𒀸 (SÍG-aš, “wool”), Tocharian A urṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Tocharian B *ūrṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Sanskrit वल्श (valśa, “branch, shoot, twig”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wil (“wild”), Saterland Frisian wíeld, wüüld (“wild”), West Frisian wyld (“wild”), Bavarian wüd (“wild”), Central Franconian weld (“wild”), Cimbrian bill (“crazy, mad; wild; stupid”), Dutch, German, and Low German wild (“wild”), Luxembourgish wëll (“wild; savage”), Vilamovian wyłd (“wild”), Yiddish ווילד (vild, “wild; savage”), Danish and Swedish vild (“wild”), Faroese villur (“wild”), Icelandic villtur (“wild; lost; barbaric, savage; uncultivated; untamed”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vill (“wild”), vill (“lost”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wilþeis, “wild”); also Cornish gwlan (“wool”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic olann (“wool”), Manx ollan (“wool”), Welsh gwlân (“wool”), Latin vellus (“fleece, wool”), villus (“hair, shaggy hair”), Ancient Greek λάχνη (lákhnē, “woolly hair; thin hair; soft nap or pile on cloth; quills hedgehog; leafage”), Lithuanian valai (“hair of the horse tail”), Belarusian во́лас (vólas, “single hair”), Czech and Slovak vlas (“single hair”), Macedonian влас (vlas, “fluff; thread (of hair)”), Polish włos (“single hair”), Russian and Ukrainian во́лос (vólos, “single hair”), Serbo-Croatian вла̑с, vlȃs (“single hair”), Slovene las (“hair on top of head; nap, pile”), Armenian գեղմ (geġm, “fleece, wool”), Central Kurdish پرچ (pirç, “fax, headhair”), Northern Kurdish hirî (“wool”), Persian گرس (gors, “curl, ringlet; braid”), Hittite 𒋠𒀸 (SÍG-aš, “wool”), Tocharian A urṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Tocharian B *ūrṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Sanskrit वल्श (valśa, “branch, shoot, twig”).
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