Pheasant
['fez(ə)nt] or ['fɛznt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere.
(noun.) flesh of a pheasant; usually braised.
芭比整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.
(n.) The ruffed grouse.
編輯:史蒂夫
解釋/意思:
n. a gallinaceous bird abundant in Britain and highly valued as food.—n. Pheas′antry an enclosure for pheasants where they may be bred and reared.
希勒尔錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Dreaming of pheasants, omens good fellowship among your friends. To eat one, signifies that the jealousy of your wife will cause you to forego friendly intercourse with your friends. To shoot them, denotes that you will fail to sacrifice one selfish pleasure for the comfort of friends.
錄入:威廉姆斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He has been ill ever since he did not eat any of the pheasant today. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant'? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a p?té de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I tried it backwards, but the combination 'life pheasant's hen' was not encouraging. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I could get a pheasant, or a woodcock. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But what is the meaning of these head-keepers and hen-pheasants? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I say that that coachman did not run away; but that he died game--game as pheasants; and I won't hear nothin' said to the contrairey. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- So it is with young pheasants reared in England under a hen. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It savored of an aroma so rare that it was given preference over even the choice pheasants which had been prepared. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is nothing but four of those beautiful pheasants' eggs, which Mrs. Whitaker would quite force upon me: she would not take a denial. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Here are the greatest number of our plants, and here are the curious pheasants. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- On one day, Mr. James, the Colonel, and Horn, the keeper, went and shot pheasants, taking little Rawdon with them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
整理:卢修斯