wagging

基本解釋

v. （動(dòng)物尾巴）來(lái)回?fù)u擺；來(lái)回?fù)u動(dòng)（豎立的手指）；議論；（非正式）逃學(xué)（wag 的現(xiàn)在分詞）

The little dog ran off wagging its tail.
小狗搖著尾巴跑了。
《新英漢大辭典》
In a typical case of tail wagging dog, says Mr de Waal, Azerbaijan sabotaged moves to reopen the border between Turkey and Armenia in 2009.
德瓦爾先生表示，在搖尾狗的典型案例中，阿塞拜疆破壞了2009年重開(kāi)土耳其與亞美尼亞邊境的動(dòng)議。
“It’s like the tail wagging the dog,” Uichiro Niwa, chairman of Itochu, a large trading company, told a conference in Tokyo organised by The Economist.
“就像尾巴搖狗，”大型貿(mào)易公司伊藤忠董事長(zhǎng)羽宇一郎在由《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》在東京組織的一次會(huì)議上說(shuō)。

"And then I turn around and I see this little puppy dog looking up at me, wagging her tail,and uh, everything just left.I got calm.

Murrin's rapid-fire pitch begins to sound, after a time, like the finger-wagging of a know-it-all parent.
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"Legacy" or used handsets purchased before today can still be unlocked without any finger-wagging from federal courts.
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But the sad reality is that any finger-wagging by the Europeans might serve only to expose their impotence.
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

When a dog wags its tail, it repeatedly waves its tail from side to side.
If you wag your finger, you shake it repeatedly and quickly from side to side, usually because you are annoyed with someone.
the act or an instance of wagging
a humorous or jocular person wit