Fiddler
['fɪdlə] or ['fɪdlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
(n.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
(n.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.
手打:劳里
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A violinist before he becomes the virtuoso who refuses to play a real tune.
錄入:勒达
例句/造句/用法:
- The Casaubon cuttle-fish fluid to begin with, and then a rebellious Polish fiddler or dancing-master, was it? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Why do They Call Them Fiddler-Crabs? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There they are, like the four-and-twenty fiddlers--all of a row. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
錄入:洛伦佐