Ostrich
['ɒstrɪtʃ] or ['ɔstrɪtʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird.
(noun.) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand).
杜安整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.
休伯特校對
解釋/意思:
n. the largest of birds found in Africa remarkable for its speed in running and prized for its feathers.—n. Os′trich-farm a place where ostriches are bred and reared for their feathers.
錄入:维维恩
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of an ostrich, denotes that you will secretly amass wealth, but at the same time maintain degrading intrigues with women. To catch one, your resources will enable you to enjoy travel and extensive knowledge.
編輯:诺拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A large bird to which (for its sins doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect for as has been ingeniously pointed out the ostrich does not fly.
克拉丽斯編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
The largest and heaviest bird on earth, yet rated by his owners only as a featherweight.
手打:谢莉
例句/造句/用法:
- She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That is a beautiful plume of white ostrich-feathers in your bonnet. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- You wore a costume of dove-colored silk with ostrich-feather trimming. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- 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.
- How young Woolwich cleans the drum-sticks without being of ostrich descent, his anxious mother is at a loss to understand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- One writer asks, why has not the ostrich acquired the power of flight? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Social life has nothing whatever to fear from group interests so long as it doesn't try to play the ostrich in regard to them. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This habit is not very uncommon with the Gallinaceae, and throws some light on the singular instinct of the ostrich. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Then ostriches disguised as judges cannot deal with them. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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.
- See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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