crow
crow 英 [krəʊ] 美 [kroʊ]
vi. 啼叫；得意地叫 n. [鸟] 乌鸦；鸡鸣；
进行时:crowing 过去式:crowed 过去分词:crowed 第三人称单数:crows 名词复数:crows
- A crow is a large, intelligent, black bird with a loud call. Farmers and gardeners set up "scarecrows" to keep crows away from their seeds and crops.
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- vi. 啼叫；得意地叫
- n. [鸟] 乌鸦；鸡鸣；
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1. I've won, I've won!’ she crowed.
“我赢了，我赢了！”她得意忘形地叫道。
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2. That is a talking crow,” she told me.
那是一只会说话的乌鸦，”她告诉我。
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3. She gave a little crow of triumph.
她轻轻地发出了胜利的欢呼声。(炫耀的叫声)
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4. He crowed that they had sold out in one day.
他洋洋得意地炫耀他们一天内就全部售完了。
- Crow Indian tribe of the American Midwest, the name is a rough translation of their own name, Apsaruke.
- crow (n.) Old English crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is perhaps based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, American English, but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). The image of a crow's foot for the wrinkles appearing with age at the corner of the eye is from late 14c. ("So longe mote ye lyve Til crowes feet be growen under youre ye." [Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, c. 1385]). Phrase as the crow flies recorded from 1800.
- crow (v.) Old English crawian "make a loud noise like a crow" (see crow (n.)); sense of "exult in triumph" is 1520s, perhaps in part because the English crow is a carrion-eater. Related: Crowed; crowing.
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