Lark
[lɑːk] or [lɑrk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
整理:洛厄尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) A frolic; a jolly time.
(v. i.) To sport; to frolic.
(n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
(v. i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
校對:潘西
解釋/意思:
n. a game frolic.—v.i. to frolic make sport.—adj. Lar′ky (coll.) frolicsome sportive.
n. a well-known singing-bird.—v.i. to catch larks.—ns. Lark's′-heel the Indian cress; Lark′spur a plant with showy flowers so called from the spur-shaped formation of calyx and petals.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment of which you will throw off selfishness and cultivate kindly graces of mind. To hear them singing as they fly, you will be very happy in a new change of abode, and business will flourish. To see them fall to the earth and singing as they fall, despairing gloom will overtake you in pleasure's bewildering delights. A wounded or dead lark, portends sadness or death. To kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness. If they fly around and light on you, Fortune will turn her promising countenance towards you. To catch them in traps, you will win honor and love easily. To see them eating, denotes a plentiful harvest.
格里菲思校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A short, sweet spree enjoyed by night hawks. Also, an early rising singing-bird. (Dist. bet. 'out on a lark,' and 'up with the lark,' an impossible combination).
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例句/造句/用法:
- I am as gay as a lark. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I have seen my young family, and Mr. Pardiggle, quite worn out with witnessing it, when I may truly say I have been as fresh as a lark! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Listen to that lark! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Here's a lark! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Then he was gay as a lark carolling from its skiey tower, soaring in thought as an eagle, innocent as the mild-eyed dove. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I have read him all, excepting only the last little sentence, and he wishes me most particular to write again what larks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The afternoon was full of larks' singing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They twirl them out in the field and larks see them and come out and the Italians shoot them. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There were larks, linnets, and goldfinches--I should think at least twenty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- By going home with Mr. Jarndyce for a day or two, I shall hear the larks sing and preserve my amiability. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it by the dozen and keep up a riotous laughter and sky-larking. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Lounging and larking doesn't pay, observed Jo, shaking her head. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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