peck
peck 英 [pek] 美 [pɛk]
vi. 啄食；扔石头；吹毛求疵 vt. 啄食；扔 n. 许多；配克（容量单位，等于2加仑）；啄痕；快速轻吻
进行时:pecking 过去式:pecked 过去分词:pecked 第三人称单数:pecks 名词复数:pecks
- To peck is to jab or bite at something the way a bird does with its beak. A peck is also a unit of measurement, like when Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. (“Eight quarts” just didn’t sound right.)
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- vi. 啄食；扔石头；吹毛求疵
- vt. 啄食；扔
- n. 许多；配克（容量单位，等于2加仑）；啄痕；快速轻吻
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1. The whole flock swirled down to her shoulders to peck at the apple.
整个鸟群都旋转着降落在她的肩膀上，啄食那个苹果。
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2. peck at symbol 1 and you get three food pellets. Never more, never less.
在标志1处，鸽子可以啄食三粒食物，就三颗，不多也不少。
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3. They saw Sun lying dead on his bed. They thought the birds must have come to peck the flesh off his bones.
他们进去看个究竟，发现孙良已经死在床上，他们想那些鸟儿一定是来啄食他的肉的。
- peck (n.1) late 13c., "dry measure of one-quarter bushel," of unknown origin; perhaps connected with Old French pek, picot (13c.), also of unknown origin (Barnhart says these were borrowed from English). Chiefly of oats for horses; original sense may be "allowance" rather than a fixed measure, thus perhaps from peck (v.).
- peck (n.2) "act of pecking," 1610s, from peck (v.). It is attested earlier in thieves' slang (1560s) with a sense of "food, grub."
- peck (v.) c. 1300, possibly a variant of picken (see pick (v.)), or in part from Middle Low German pekken "to peck with the beak." Related: Pecked; pecking.
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