monkey

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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mon·key1 /ˈmʌŋki/ ●●● S3 noun [countable]  1. HBAa small brown animal with a long tail, which uses its hands to climb trees and lives in hot countries 猴2  informalCHILD a small child who is very active and likes to play tricks 顽皮儿童，淘气鬼，捣蛋鬼 Stop that, you little monkey! 别这样，你这个小淘气鬼！3. monkey business informalBAD PERSON bad or dishonest behaviour 恶作剧；骗人把戏，不轨行为4  not give a monkey’s British English spoken informalDON'T CARE to not care at all about something 一点都不在乎 To be honest I don’t give a monkey’s what they do. 说实话，我一点都不在乎他们做什么。5. make a monkey (out) of somebody MAKE FUN OFto make someone seem stupid 使某人出丑，戏弄[愚弄]某人6. a monkey on your back American English informalMDDDIFFICULT a serious problem that makes your life very difficult, especially being dependent on drugs 使生活艰难的沉重负担〔尤指药物依赖〕

Examples from the Corpus

monkey• It is an unspectacular-looking place of prefab houses and beehive-like cages where some 5,000 monkeys live and 35 employees work.• Under it I might have been a performing bear or a monkey on a chain.• Birds, snakes, lizards, fish and monkeys are wild animals which adapt badly to a caged life.• Then, as he placed the net on the table, the wildly chattering monkey grew quiet.• For example, area V4 in monkeys is specialized for processing colour information but doesn't encode other attributes like motion or position.• Stop that, you little monkey!• He convinced local landholders to give the monkeys safe haven by setting aside land as a preserve.monkey2 verb  1 monkey around (also monkey about British English) phrasal verb informal STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEto behave in a stupid or careless way 胡闹，捣蛋，调皮 Stop monkeying around and listen to me! 别再捣蛋了，听我说！→ See Verb table

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monkey• Seems there was some others saw him after I did, monkeying about by that cave-in again.Origin monkey1 (1500-1600) Probably from Low German

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animal long with Corpus a a small brown tail,

monkey

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mon‧key¹ /ˈmʌŋki/ noun [countable]1. a small brown animal with a long tail, which uses its hands to climb trees and lives in hot countries
2. informal a small child who is very active and likes to play tricks:
    Stop that, you little monkey!
3. monkey business informal bad or dishonest behaviour
4. not give a monkey’s British English spoken informal to not care at all about something:
    To be honest I don’t give a monkey’s what they do.
5. make a monkey (out) of somebody to make someone seem stupid
6. a monkey on your back American English informal a serious problem that makes your life very difficult, especially being dependent on drugs

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monkey² verb
monkey around (also monkey about British English) phrasal verb informal
  to behave in a stupid or careless way:
    Stop monkeying around and listen to me!

mon·keyBrE /ˈmʌŋki/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmʌŋki/ 🔊 noun

an animal with a long tail, that climbs trees and lives in hot countries. There are several types of monkey and they are related to apes and humans. 猴子(informal) a child who is active and likes playing tricks on people 顽皮的孩子；调皮鬼；捣蛋鬼◆Come here, you cheeky little monkey! 过来，你这没有教养的小捣蛋鬼！🔊🔊(BrE, slang) £500 * 500 英镑●get a monkey off your ˈbackto free yourself of something that causes you worry or difficulty 解除忧虑；排除困难◆The team have never beaten Germany and they'll be desperate to get that monkey off their backs.该队从未打败过德国队，他们太想战胜这个对手，一吐心中的郁闷了。●I don't/couldn't give a ˈmonkey's(BrE, slang) used to say, in a way that is not very polite, that you do not care about sth, or are not at all interested in it 我根本无所谓；我压根儿就不在乎●make a ˈmonkey (out) of sbto make sb seem stupid 捉弄；愚弄●ˌbrass ˈmonkeys●ˌbrass ˈmonkey weather(BrE, slang) if you say that it is brass monkeys or brass monkey weather, you mean that it is very cold weather 极冷的天气；天寒地冻