monkey
noun /ˈmʌŋki/
/ˈmʌŋki/
Idioms - enlarge imagean animal with a long tail, that climbs trees and lives in hot countries. There are several types of monkey and they are related to apes and humans.
猴子 - Like humans, apes and monkeys live in complex social groupings.
像人类一样，猿和猴子生活在复杂的社会群体中。 - The disease affects monkeys and humans in similar ways.
这种疾病以类似的方式影响猴子和人类。 - A troop of monkeys crashed their way through the trees.
一群猴子在树林中飞奔。 - Scientists visiting the island encountered a troop of wild monkeys.
参观该岛的科学家遇到了一群野生猴子。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- capuchin
- howler
- rhesus
- …
- horde
- troop
- chatter
- hang
- swing
- …
- Like humans, apes and monkeys live in complex social groupings.
- (informal) a child who is active and likes playing tricks on people
顽皮的孩子；调皮鬼；捣蛋鬼 - Come here, you cheeky little monkey!
过来，你这没有教养的小捣蛋鬼！
- Come here, you cheeky little monkey!
- (British English, slang) £500
500 英镑 see also grease monkey
词源mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin, perhaps from Low German.
Idioms
brass monkeys | brass monkey weather
- (British English, slang) if you say that it is brass monkeys or brass monkey weather, you mean that it is very cold weather
极冷的天气；天寒地冻
get a monkey off your back
- (informal) to free yourself of something that causes you worry or difficulty
解除忧虑；排除困难 - The team have never beaten Germany and they'll be desperate to get that monkey off their backs.
该队从未打败过德国队，他们太想战胜这个对手，一吐心中的郁闷了。
- The team have never beaten Germany and they'll be desperate to get that monkey off their backs.
I don’t/couldn’t give a monkey’s
- (British English, slang) used to say, in a way that is not very polite, that you do not care about something, or are not at all interested in it
我根本无所谓；我压根儿就不在乎 - I don’t give a monkey’s whether you want to come or not.
不管你愿不愿意来，我都不在乎。
- I don’t give a monkey’s whether you want to come or not.
make a monkey (out) of somebody
- (informal) to make somebody seem stupid
捉弄；愚弄