Duck
[dʌk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs.
(noun.) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents.
(noun.) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild).
(noun.) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman.
(verb.) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; 'Before he could duck, another stone struck him'.
(verb.) submerge or plunge suddenly.
手打:纳塔利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A pet; a darling.
(n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
(n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
(v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
(v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
(v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
(v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
(v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
(v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
(v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
手打:曼弗雷德
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Immerse, plunge, souse, dip.
v. n. [1]. Dive, plunge, dip, immerse one's self.[2]. Bow, cringe.
戈登編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a kind of coarse cloth for small sails sacking &c.
n. name given to any member of the family Anatid the prominent marks of which are short webbed feet with a small hind-toe not reaching the ground the netted scales in front of the lower leg and the long bill: the female duck as distinguished from the male drake: in cricket (originally duck's egg) the zero (0) which records in a scoring-sheet that a player has made no runs: (coll.) a darling sweetheart: a financial defaulter—esp. Lame Duck: also of things.—ns. Duck′-ant a Jamaican termite nesting in trees; Duck′-bill an aquatic burrowing and egg-laying Australian mammal about 18 inches long with soft fur broadly webbed feet and depressed duck-like bill—also called Duck-mole Platypus and Ornithorhynchus.—adj. Duck′-billed having a bill like a duck.—n. Duck′-hawk the moor-buzzard or marsh-harrier: the peregrine falcon of the United States.—adj. Duck′-legged short-legged.—ns. Duck′ling a young duck; Duck's′-foot the lady's mantle; Duck′-weed a name for several species of Lemna and Wolffia growing in ditches; Bombay duck bummals; Wild′-duck the mallard.—Break one's duck (cricket) to make one's first run (see above); Make Play ducks and drakes to use recklessly: squander waste (with with of)—from the skipping of a flat stone across the surface of water.
v.t. to dip for a moment in water.—v.i. to dip or dive: to lower the head suddenly: to cringe yield.—n. a quick plunge dip: a quick lowering of the head or body a jerky bow.—ns. Duck′er one who ducks: a diving-bird; Duck′ing; Duck′ing-pond; Duck′ing-stool a stool or chair in which scolds were formerly tied and ducked in the water as a punishment.
汉娜錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of seeing wild ducks on a clear stream of water, signifies fortunate journeys, perhaps across the sea. White ducks around a farm, indicate thrift and a fine harvest. To hunt ducks, denotes displacement in employment in the carrying out of plans. To see them shot, signifies that enemies are meddling with your private affairs. To see them flying, foretells a brighter future for you. It also denotes marriage, and children in the new home.
爱丽丝錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- One of these is an imitation of the duck's foot, which expands when it strikes the water, and collapses when it is withdrawn. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I am like John-a-Duck's mare, that will let no man mount her but John-a-Duck. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Bernouilli, Genevois, and the Marquis de Jouffroy used paddles on the duck’s foot principle, which closed when dragged forward, and expanded when pushed to the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I'll have no lame duck's daughter in my family. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Bartlett, uses its bill like a duck by throwing the water out at the corners. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He will have a very pretty income to make ducks and drakes with, and earned without much trouble. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This incubator will hatch chicks, ducks, turkeys, or guineas, and we see no reason why it should not hatch the egg of the ostrich or anything else as well. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Two or three months before this he had ocular proof of the effect of a hailstorm, which in a very limited area killed twenty deer, fifteen ostriches, numbers of ducks, hawks, and partridges. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The fornicator ducked back. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They ran for the culvert and ducked in. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Loerke, meanwhile, was crouching and glancing up from under his ducked head. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Robert Jordan waved him down and the gypsy ducked out of sight. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the dark they walked over to the entrance of the cave, ducked under the blanket and went in. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Suddenly one of them snorted, ducked its head, and backed. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Then I ducked beneath his outstretched arms, at the same time sidestepping to the right. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Then he carried the slab and the ax back into the cave, ducking under the blanket as he came in, and leaned them both against the wall. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The man was too quick, and, ducking beneath it, himself delivered a mighty one, with clenched fist, in the pit of Kerchak's stomach. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- His ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book which he desired I would dry for him. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Anselmo went out, ducking under the hanging blanket. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Then the guard put the key in the door, turned it, and pulled the door toward him, ducking behind it as the mob rushed in. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- A ducking stool was a sort of a chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
沙琳編輯