Gull
[gʌl] or [ɡʌl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.
(verb.) fool or hoax; 'The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone'; 'You can't fool me!'.
艾哈迈德校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.
(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.
塞西尔編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Deceive, cheat, dupe, trick, chouse, diddle, cozen, overreach, circumvent, beguile, impose upon.
n. [1]. Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, fraud.[2]. Dupe, CAT'S-PAW.[3]. Mew, cob, seamew, sea-cob.
手打:尼尔
同義詞及反義詞：
[See CHEAT]
手打:胡里奥
解釋/意思:
n. a web-footed sea-fowl belonging to the family Larid.
v.t. to beguile: to deceive.—n. a trick: one easily cheated: (Shak.) a nestling.—ns. Gull′-catch′er (Shak.) a cheat; Gull′er; Gull′ery imposture; Gullibil′ity.—adj. Gull′ible easily deceived.—n. Gullos′ity.
卡洛整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of gulls, is a prophecy of peaceful dealings with ungenerous persons. Seeing dead gulls, means wide separation for friends.
手打:莎伦
例句/造句/用法:
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A gull comes sweeping by their heads and flouts them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I like peeps better than the gulls. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But what gulls men are! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Study taught them that birds are really aeroplanes, and that buzzards and hawks and gulls stay in the air by balancing on or sliding down rising currents of air. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
手打:尤赖亚