cry wolf

基本解释

• 发假警报；谎报军情

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Don't cry wolf unless you really need help.
  意思是：除非你真的需要帮助，不然不要发“狼来了”的假警报。
• To cry wolf is to give false alarm. It comes from the fable of the shepherd boy who often called "wolf" to make fun of the neighbors.
  喊狼来了就是发假警报。它来源于一个牧童的寓言。他经常喊狼来了，以此捉弄邻居。
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• “I don’t want to cry wolf on this, ” said Dr. John M. Kittelson, a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the University of Colorado Denver.
  科罗拉多丹佛大学生命统计及信信息学院的教授凯特林博士说：“我可不想当喊狼来了的那个家伙。”

原声例句

• The cry of a wolf brought the picture of the old moose back to him again.

权威例句

• Trade-liberalisation rounds are arcane affairs about which free-traders are often thought to cry wolf.
  ECONOMIST: Trade and poverty
• Like the boy in the cry-wolf fable, you just get to a point where no one believes you.
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词组短语

短语

• cry y wolf 发出假警报;发假情报
• the cry of wolf 假警报
• Cry -Wolf 哭泣杀狼
• a cry of wolf 危然耸听
• cry wolf Ass 发出假警报

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• to keep asking for help when you do not need it, with the result that people think you do not need help when you really need it