汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 蠢蠢欲动
蠢蠢欲动 (蠢蠢欲動)
to begin to stir (idiom) / to get restless / to become threatening
蠢蠢 The creepy / It is an analogy of the enemy preparing to attack or the bad guys plotting to make trouble
虫子开始蠕动。比喻坏人准备或开始活动侵略者虎视眈眈,蠢蠢欲动,必须提高警惕。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

难道没有一种奋起直追的蠢蠢欲动想法?

Don't you have a strong desire to catch up with them?

其实一个人的时候,心在隐隐作痛,泪在蠢蠢欲动

In fact, when a person, the heart is aching and tears ready for it.

只是已婚男子还蠢蠢欲动,或强占强霸就另当别论了。

Just married man still eager for action, or strong had strong to be another matter.

公款支援高科网络,技术爱好者蠢蠢欲动,但是对于其他人,好处实乃有限。

Spending public money on whizzy new networks appeals to technophiles, but the benefits are not clear for others.

“如果日本不是蠢蠢欲动的话,也许他们不会搞核试验。”一位居民这样说。

"Maybe they wouldn't do things like this test if places like Japan weren't so mean to them," one resident suggested.

而钢琴家则不会有这种顾虑,音符在那蠢蠢欲动呢,因为钢琴调音师负责为钢琴家调试乐器。

Painiasts are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner's responsibility to tune the instrument for them.

或许,是发觉了我们的蠢蠢欲动,老总昨天下发紧急通知:“明天午餐给大家加餐,吃枇杷。”

Maybe the boss was aware of it, and informed that the loquat would be added into tomorrow' lunch.

沉寂已久的“野猫面滑坡体”,在玉米梯田、橘树林和砖土房所处的陡坡之下正蠢蠢欲动

The Wild Cat landslide, long at rest beneath the terraced maize fields, orange-tree groves and earth-brick houses perched on the steep slope, was stirring.

她可以看清楚它身上的每一个细节:蠢蠢欲动的黑色爪子,锋利的嘴,还有一只闪着光的的黑色眼睛。

She could see every detail of it clearly: the greedy dark claws, the sharp beak, the single glittering black eye.

奥巴马积极着手营造一个无核化的世界,这一美好夙愿让许多不轨之徒蠢蠢欲动,他们借机打起核武的擦边球。

PAVED it may be with good intentions, but there are many twists and pot-holes along the road to a nuclear-free world.