sneaking的意思|sneaking的解释-里氏词典

sneaking ['sni:kiŋ]

a. 偷偷逃走的, 暗中的, 卑微的

[法] 隐密的, 鬼祟的, 卑怯的

sneaking

[ adj ]
not openly expressed
<adj.all>
a sneaking suspicion

Sneaking \Sneak"ing\, a.
Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and
courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- {Sneak"ing*ly}, adv.
-- {Sneak"ing*ness}, n.

Sneak \Sneak\ (sn[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneaked}
(sn[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sneaking}.] [OE. sniken, AS.
sn[=i]can to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel.
sn[=i]kja to hanker after.]
1. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go
meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to
sneak away from company.

You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
--Dryden.

2. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with
meanness and servility; to crouch.

Like Elly, she likes to gossip, worries about gaining weight while sneaking cookies, and occasionally barks at her kids.
By 19 he was impersonating a student and sneaking into the computing center at Temple University to play computer games.
Naturally, the Bundesbank's Issing is keen on Frankfurt, while the Bank of England's King has a sneaking suspicion that Bonn might be the compromise candidate to back.
Col. Rosa Pasos, denied that any large-scale operations were involved, and said most of the action was concentrated on rebels sneaking into Nicaragua from neighboring Honduras.
That's too late, perhaps, but there's no denying the peculiar vitality sneaking into this fog on little rats' feet when the locus of evil begins shifting.
California's contestant in the Miss Teen USA pageant was disqualified after four competitors accused her of sneaking out of her room to visit her boyfriend after curfew, a local organizer says.
The charges about Kennedy sneaking away from the Secret Service were made by Langdon Marvin Jr., a former defense consultant to Kennedy.
Two younger bulls sneaking toward the nearby harem are routed by EPO3, who rears up and trumpets a belligerent warning.
Many people have a sneaking suspicion Ernie has forgotten their holding.
Patients went AWOL to walk to the corner gas station to buy cigarettes. "They were sneaking out at night, climbing out of windows," Capretto said.
I confess to a sneaking admiration for Mr Jerry Brown's presidential campaign.
Meantime, gold traders likely will be sneaking more peeks at the stock market, some say.
Senator Inouye is under the glass because he got caught sneaking one of those dead-of-the-night pet bills into the $600 billion continuing resolution.
Many Taiwan companies have set aside a fund for stock investments, in which profits are shared with employees to prevent them from sneaking away from work to the brokerage floors, brokers say.
After three decades of sneaking into the United States to earn a living for his family, Mexican farm worker Alejandro Fierro this year strode across the border, upright and legal, with proof in his pocket that America's new amnesty program works.
Then it accuses conservatives of hypocrisy for supporting Mr. Lucas, whom it accuses of being a liar and of "sneaking jewelry past customs."
Martin Sankey, who follows GE at First Boston Corp., said, "I have a sneaking suspicion it will come down to who is permitted to buy it," rather than which company wants to spend the most money.
Others, recalling that unfortunate business with Sara Keays and the love child (which cost him the position of foreign secretary), think him a cad, a bounder. But I have always had a sneaking admiration for this man.
A six-foot crocodile stopped two mutinous soldiers from sneaking into a military camp at the height of a coup attempt to topple President Corazon Aquino, the state-run news agency reported Thursday.
In the meantime, he's sneaking around rumors that Culture Club might get back together.

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