apery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where apes are kept. countable,uncountable
    — If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
  2. The practice of aping (copying) countable,uncountable
  3. apish behavior. countable,uncountable
    — Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.

词形变化

aperies plural

词汇关系

相关词
monkey business

词源

From ape + -ery.
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