wary

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++war·y /ˈweəri $ ˈweri/ adjective CAREFULsomeone who is wary is careful because they think something might be dangerous or harmful 小心翼翼的，谨慎的be wary of (doing) something I’m a bit wary of driving in this fog. 我有点害怕在这样的雾天开车。wary of We must teach children to be wary of strangers. 我们一定要教育孩子警惕陌生人。 Keep a wary eye on the weather before you set sail. 出航前要密切注意天气。 She had a wary expression on her face. 她脸上带着小心谨慎的表情。 —wariness noun [singular, uncountable] a wariness in her voice 她语气中透出的谨慎 —warily adverb She eyed him warily. 她警惕地看着他。

Examples from the Corpus

wary• A natural gas explosion that killed three and injured more than 20 others in 1992 has made the community particularly wary.• As for coming out: you are very wary.• The problems with selling the house had made her much more wary about financial matters.• Consumers have become very wary and are spending much less.• One of the guards was fiddling with his radio, all the time keeping a wary eye on the five prisoners.• Be wary of advisers who recommend that you sell all your current investments in order to buy new ones.• Wary of becoming entangled in her friend's family quarrels, Eileen made an excuse and left.• She had become extremely wary of relationships as a result of her childhood experiences.• One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake.be wary of (doing) something• Congress is wary of becoming too dependent on foreign oil.• He was wary of it, thinking it might be living, but he saw it was just another machine.• W01111n, like birds, have learned to be wary of men; they pass the wariness on, genetically.• It was broken, and we should be wary of returning to such a rigid system.• I longed to ask questions but was wary of revealing my complete lack of local knowledge.• The Chancellor should be wary of the argument that the deficit does not matter because it is in the private sector.• One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake.• Other parishioners were wary of unleashing political passions in the parish.Origin wary (1400-1500) ware “careful” ((11-20 centuries)), from Old English wær

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war‧y /ˈweəri $ ˈweri/