Peck
[pek] or [pɛk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches.
(noun.) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.
(verb.) eat by pecking at, like a bird.
(verb.) hit lightly with a picking motion.
恩里克錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
(n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
(v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
(v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
(v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
(v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
(v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
(v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
(n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
校對:拉里
解釋/意思:
v.t. to strike with the beak: to pick up with the beak: to eat: to strike with anything pointed: to strike with repeated blows.—ns. Peck′er that which pecks: a woodpecker: (slang) spirit as in 'to keep one's pecker up'=to keep up one's spirits; Peck′ing the sport of throwing pebbles at birds.—adj. Peck′ish somewhat hungry.
n. a measure of capacity for dry goods=2 gallons or one-fourth of a bushel: a great amount.
校對:莎娜
例句/造句/用法:
- The district selected for lighting was the area--nearly a square mile in extent--included between Wall, Nassau, Spruce, and Ferry Streets, Peck Slip and the East River in New York City. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The old lady likes me, and I'll be as sweet as possible to her, so she won't peck at us, whatever we do. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He had known, to use his words, a peck of trouble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- So much the more necessairy is a Peck,' returned Riderhood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Don't peck at one another, children. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Why, said Joe, yes, there certainly were a peck of orange-peel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A chick, for example, pecks accurately at a bit of food in a few hours after hatching. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- That's worth millions of money and pecks of praise. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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