Magpie
['mægpaɪ]
解释:
(noun.) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call.
(noun.) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others.
海伦娜编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
巴罗录入
解释:
n. a chattering bird of a genus allied to the crow with pied or coloured feathers: (slang) a halfpenny—(Shak.) Mag′ot-pie Magg′ot-pie.
录入:特德
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a magpie, denotes much dissatisfaction and quarrels. The dreamer should guard well his conduct and speech after this dream.
整理:昆廷
娱乐性解释：
n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
录入:里基
例句:
- If you just go to the Magpie and Stump, and ask at the bar for Mr. Lowten, they'll show you in to him, and he's Mr. Perker's clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I suppose so,' returned Bella; 'I look in the glass often enough, and I chatter like a Magpie. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He might as well have provided them for a squirrel or a magpie. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- He was a chatterer, a magpie, a maker of mischievous word-jokes, that were sometimes very clever, but which often were not. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I'm at low-water-mark myself--only one bob and a magpie; but, as far as it goes, I'll fork out and stump. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- You are to understand, said Mr. Bucket, that this gentleman he come into Krook's property, and a good deal of magpie property there was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He was own brother to a brimstone magpie--leastways Mrs. Smallweed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- So, to the Three Magpies as before: where Mrs Boffin and Miss Bella were handed out, and whence they all went on foot to Mrs Betty Higden's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
编辑:纳内特