Plumage
['pluːmɪdʒ] or ['plumɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The entire clothing of a bird.
校對:西蒙
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Feathers.
手打:玛里琳
解釋/意思:
n. the whole feathers of a bird.
整理:泰勒
例句/造句/用法:
- Yes; there it lies on its side, dried up; except for its plumage, very like myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I could not eat the tart; and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded: I put both plate and tart away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Cockatoo of transcendent plumage: attraction, of himself, to all visitors of taste. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Such a night for plumage! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Jane, be still; don't struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
整理:莉莲