Linnet
['lɪnɪt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
整理:凯瑟琳
解釋/意思:
n. a small singing-bird—from feeding on flax-seed.
校對:米利森特
例句/造句/用法:
- This linnet, as near as I can remember, seemed to be somewhat larger than an English swan. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There were larks, linnets, and goldfinches--I should think at least twenty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
編輯:珀西