Cockatoo
[kɒkə'tuː] or ['kɑkə'tʊ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds.
伊丽莎白編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.
手打:莱曼
解釋/意思:
n. a popular name for several genera and species of parrots.
整理:雷蒙德
例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- The cockatoo, a most vicious and treacherous bird towards every one else, absolutely seems to love him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Cockatoo of transcendent plumage: attraction, of himself, to all visitors of taste. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My cockatoo, my canaries, and my little mice--who will cherish them when their good Papa is gone? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I will offer my canaries and my cockatoo to this vast Metropolis--my agent shall present them in my name to the Zoological Gardens of London. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The canaries and the cockatoo were probably in some other room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The Count had finished his fourth tart, and had gone to a side-table to look after his vicious cockatoo. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
錄入:索尔