Scarecrow
['skeəkrəʊ]
解释:
(n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
(n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
(n.) The black tern.
录入:斯蒂芬妮
娱乐性解释:
An operator who repeatedly corners corn, without caws.
吉米编辑
例句:
- This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- They painted Virgins enough, and popes enough and saintly scarecrows enough, to people Paradise, almost, and these things are all they did paint. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
整理:米歇尔