| 英语单词 | crow |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [krəʊ] 美 [kroʊ] |
| 中文释义 | n.乌鸦;啼叫;欢叫 v.报晓;啼叫;欢叫;夸口;洋洋自得 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The crow is a bird of ill omen. (2) He gets up at the crow of the rooster every day. (3) It was dawn, and I could hear a cock crowing somewhere. (4) He is the kind of person who always crows about his success. (5) You should not crow over a defeated enemy. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 乌鸦是不祥的预兆。 (2) 他每天鸡鸣即起。 (3) 天亮了,我听到从某处传来雄鸡的报晓声。 (4) 他是那种总是夸耀自己成功的人。 (5) 你不应该在被你击败的敌手面前洋洋得意。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A crow is a large, intelligent, black bird with a loud call. Farmers and gardeners set up "scarecrows" to keep crows away from their seeds and crops. |
| vocabulary扩展 | A crow is glossy and dark, a close relation of the raven, and a large group of crows is known as a murder. When a crow caws, you can also say it crows — and another way to crow is to call out with satisfaction about something: "I'm so proud of the award I just want to crow about it all day long!" The Old English root of crowe is crawe, which imitates the sound a crow makes. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]乌鸦 A crow is a large black bird which makes a loud, harsh noise. 2 [VERB 动词](公鸡)打鸣,啼叫 When a cock crows, it makes a loud sound, often early in the morning. [V]
3 [VERB 动词]对…洋洋自得;为…自鸣得意 If you say that someone is crowing about something they have achieved or are pleased about, you disapprove of them because they keep telling people proudly about it. [V [V that] [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式]
4 [VERB 动词]欢叫;高兴地说 If someone crows, they make happy sounds or say something happily. [V [V with quote]
5 [PHRASE 短语]成直线地;笔直地 If you say that a place is a particular distance away as the crow flies, you mean that it is that distance away measured in a straight line. [oft amount PHR]
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