Birds

例句/造句/用法:

• I shall begin to admit what you said of yourself when you first came here--that you are a bear, and want teaching by the birds. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• The uprising of the star of day was hailed by triumphant strains, while the birds, heard by snatches, filled up the intervals of the music. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
• I have added to my collection of birds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• And the birds I hear! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• All this time I stood watching the turkeys to see where they flew--with my gun on my shoulder, and never once thought of levelling it at the birds. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• The very birds of the air, as it seems to me, give the Shivering Sand a wide berth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• What, you're looking at my lodger's birds, Mr. Jarndyce? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• He had birds' eggs, young birds, and the honey and honeycomb of wild bees. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• I will consider that in meeting her to-night I have met with one of those birds whose appearance is to the sailor the harbinger of good luck. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• They killed small birds, and set spirits on fire. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa have given their consent; and if ever canary birds were in a flutter, they are. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• The birds use their vocal cords to beautiful advantage in singing, far surpassing us in many ways, but the power of speech is lacking. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• They're for attracting birds. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
• There are twenty-six land birds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• The pair of them were like two wild birds. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
• He was a big, fat, odd sort of elderly man, who kept birds and white mice, and spoke to them as if they were so many Christian children. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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