Sparrow
['spærəʊ] or ['spæro]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects.
錄入:李莉斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
(n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.
安迪編輯
解釋/意思:
n. an Old World genus of birds of fringilline family.—ns. Sparr′ow-bill a small shoe-nail so called from its shape—also Spar′able; Sparr′ow-grass asparagus; Sparr′ow-hawk a genus of long-legged short-winged falcons like the goshawks but smaller.—adj. Sparr′ow-tail (see Swallow-tail).
校對:佩德罗
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love and comfort, and this will cause you to listen with kindly interest to tales of woe, and your benevolence will gain you popularity. To see them distressed or wounded, foretells sadness.
奥布里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Behold, cried he, as he entered, what bird's food I have brought for my sparrow on the house-top. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Yer ought ter look up to the Lord above--he's above all--thar don't a sparrow fall without him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Charley took it in both his own with a tenderness beyond description, unless it was like that of a child holding a captured sparrow. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Sparrows were there, cats were there, dry-rot and wet-rot were there, but it was not otherwise a suggestive spot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My little woman, says Mr. Snagsby to the sparrows in Staple Inn, likes to have her religion rather sharp, you see! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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