whippet meaning in English
n.
1.极灵巧的杂种小猎狗[赛跑狗]。
2.【军事】快速轻坦克。
Examples
- Upshaw, a fast-talking, shortstatured, dynamic whippet of a man in his late forties, had been selling drugs all his working life .
厄普肖年近五十，讲起来话如同机关枪，身材不高，象一匹冲劲十足的赛犬。开始工作后，他一直干药品推销。 - Why , ada , you are skinny as a whippet , girl ,
怎么了，艾达你都瘦得皮包骨了，姑娘 - Opted not to do a nude scene in four weddings and a funeral 1994 when a make up artist asked if he wanted definition painted on his body . graduated from oxford university with a degree in english . on the set of " mickey blue eyes " , james caan gave hugh the nickname of whippy , because caan said he worried about everything like " the little whippet dogs that get nervous and you got to put a sweater on them when they re cold .
此后，格兰特又接着拍了几部影片，在即兴演奏1991 impromptu中塑造了音乐家肖邦的形象在苦月亮bitter moon 1992看得见风景的房间和去日留痕remains of the day 1993中，他又再次塑造了典型的英国贵族绅士的形象，被人们称为“天生的贵族” 。