wild man
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A primitive man who dwells outside of civilized society; a savage person without culture.
— He had rescued the duchess from the very fangs of the monster, which, he assured the ladies, was neither a wolf, nor a bear, nor yet a wild man of the woods.
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A rowdy, dissolute, rash, or violent man.
— [H]e was a sinner, unregenerated, a wild man in her estimation, a being of quite another kind than herself.
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A man who advocates unorthodox or outrageous opinions or who behaves in an eccentric manner.
— "They're saying I'm a wild man. If I turn the trick, they'll say I'm a genius." So said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years.
词源
From Middle English wilde man. Cognate with Dutch wildeman (“wildman, savage”). By surface analysis, wild + man.
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