Plover
['plʌvə] or ['plʌvɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers.
巴罗錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.
(n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.
珍妮特編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a well-known wading bird.
錄入:莉娜
例句/造句/用法:
- If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Except these, the plover and the curlew are the only inhabitants until you come to the Chesterfield high road. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- As large, or nearly, as a plover's egg! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
校對:利昂