首页英语词典birdbird的意思

bird

英 [bɜːd] 美[bɝd]

英英释义词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词flier fowl friend fledgling warbler

n. 鸟；家伙；羽毛球
vt. 向…喝倒彩；起哄
vi. 猎鸟；观察研究野鸟
n. (Bird)人名；(英、西)伯德

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词态变化

复数: birds;

中文词源

bird 鸟

词源不详。

英英释意

1. warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

2. the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

3. informal terms for a (young) woman

4. a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

5. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

英文词源

bird: bird: [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term until the 14th century, and the process took many hundreds of years to complete. Its source is quite unknown; it has no obvious relatives in the Germanic languages, or in any other Indo-European language.

The connotations of its original meaning have led to speculation that it is connected with breed and brood (the usual Old English form was brid, but the r and i subsequently became transposed in a process known as metathesis), but no convincing evidence for this has ever been advanced. As early as 1300, bird was used for ‘girl’, but this was probably owing to confusion with another similar Middle English word, burde, which also meant ‘young woman’.

The usage crops up from time to time in later centuries, clearly as an independent metaphorical application, but there does not really seem to be an unbroken chain of occurrences leading up to the sudden explosion in the use of bird for ‘young woman’ in the 20th century. Of other figurative applications of the word, ‘audience disapproval’ (as in ‘get the bird’) comes from the hissing of geese, and in ‘prison sentence’ bird is short for bird lime, rhyming slang for time.
bird (n.1): Old English bird, rare collateral form of bridd, originally "young bird, nestling" (the usual Old English for "bird" being fugol, for which see fowl (n.)), which is of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to brood and breed is rejected by OED as "quite inadmissible." Metathesis of -r- and -i- was complete 15c.
Middle English, in which bird referred to various young animals and even human beings, may have preserved the original meaning of this word. Despite its early attestation, bridd is not necessarily the oldest form of bird. It is usually assumed that -ir- from -ri- arose by metathesis, but here, too, the Middle English form may go back to an ancient period. [Liberman]
Figurative sense of "secret source of information" is from 1540s. Bird dog (n.) attested from 1832, a gun dog used in hunting game birds; hence the verb (1941) meaning "to follow closely." Bird-watching attested from 1897. Bird's-eye view is from 1762. For the birds recorded from 1944, supposedly in allusion to birds eating from droppings of horses and cattle.
A byrde yn honde ys better than three yn the wode. [c. 1530]
bird (n.3): "middle finger held up in a rude gesture," slang derived from 1860s expression give the big bird "to hiss someone like a goose," kept alive in vaudeville slang with sense of "to greet someone with boos, hisses, and catcalls" (1922), transferred 1960s to the "up yours" hand gesture (the rigid finger representing the hypothetical object to be inserted) on notion of defiance and contempt. Gesture itself seems to be much older (the human anatomy section of a 12c. Latin bestiary in Cambridge describes the middle finger as that "by means of which the pursuit of dishonour is indicated").
bird (n.2): "maiden, young girl," c. 1300, confused with burd (q.v.), but felt by later writers as a figurative use of bird (n.1). Modern slang meaning "young woman" is from 1915, and probably arose independently of the older word.

考试真题

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

Dr William Bird suggests in his study that wild places may induce impulsive behaviour in people.

Learn five species of bird, five butterflies, five trees, five bird songs.

Bird lovers, both young and old, have already responded with excitement at the news.

Some fly very long distances, including one kind of bird that flies from the remote north of the world, all the way to the distant south.

The birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

They have led some birds to give up on migration.

They have changed the previous migration habits of certain birds.

The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

Migrating birds affect ecosystems both at home and at their winter destinations, and disrupting the traditional routes could have unexpected side effects.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

In the short-term, the birds seem to benefit from overwintering ( ' , 过冬) on rubbish dumps.

For the birds, it's a very convenient way to get food.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

Way up north in the Canadian Arctic, seabirds are picking up dangerous chemicals in the ocean and delivering them to ponds near where the birds live.

Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.

People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

Other birds unknowingly carry seeds that cling to them for the ride.

In ponds closest to the colony, the result showed there were far more pollutants than the ponds less affected by the birds.

Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

Birds flock together, fish school together, cattle herd together.

He captures birds only to let them go when he realizes the cruelty involved.

The bird Clark's nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100, 000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic(共生的) relationship with several pine species, most 32 notably the whitebark pine.

Although birds use their feathers for flight, some of their feathers are for other purposes.

And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.

And why do cats give dead birds to their owners?

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

Biologist Kristin says the plan is to see how the birds respond to the multi-colored road this summer.

But when it comes to embryonic learning (胎教), birds could rule the roost.

California condors are north America's largest birds, with wind-length of up to 3 meters.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

Embryonic learning helps mother birds to identify the baby birds which fit the environment better.

For a time, a few birds survived under human care.

He began studying them, trying to learn the differences between the birds and noticing their different behaviors.

He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

Here is a graph that charts how far a bird flies during the first five days of its spring migration see graph 2.

Here is a piece of news for bird lovers.

However, some birds thrive in noisy environments.

I have people coming to me saying, you are the bird expert.

I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a "ruby-crowned kinglet" and checked it off.

If I have the chance to attend the class, I'm going to cut out a bird.

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

In addition, the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their mom's voice were rewarded with the most food.

In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons were the largest bird population in the US.

Like ancient sailors, birds can find their way using the sun and the stars.

Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.

Never allow dogs or other pets to run freely in areas of nesting bird, other wildlife, or where signposted.

Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.

Observe signs to approach nesting birds.

On a local level, the damage of the forest required by full-sun fields affects the area's birds and animals.

Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock.

The bird covered the longest distance on day 3.

The bird watchers' behavior shows that they care only about the names of birds.

The birds' health might be damaged.

The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

The change in how coffee is grown from shade-grown production to full-sun production endangers the very existence of, certain animals and birds, and even disturbs the world's ecological balance.

The line segment goes up between Day 1 and Day 2, which means that the bird flew farther on Day 2.

The shade of the forest trees provides a home for birds and other special that depend on the trees' flowers and fruits.

The writer mentions birds and frogs to show how light pollution affects animals.

Then he found that the animals around were very beautiful, and he particularly enjoyed observing the birds he saw.

Therefore, he painted the birds he observed a lot.

They are keen to see rare birds at the destination.

They no longer paid attention to the bird and never learned what it was doing.

This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird.

We are lucky now to have so many paintings of American birds by John Audubon.

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

When your cat drops a dead bird at your feet, she isn't bringing you a present.

"Young birds are often attracted to the warm road surface and get killed by the traffic." Biology student Hannah tells the broadcaster.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds.

Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.

Beavers build dams and birds make nests.

"The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction," says biologist Jay lininger.

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction.

They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered, " a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

词组搭配

the bird has flown

the person one is looking for has escaped or left

要找的人逃走（或离开）了

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

(proverb)it's better to be content with what you have than to risk losing everything by seeking to get more

(谚)双鸟在林不如一鸟在手

the birds and the bees

(informal)basic facts about sex and reproduction as told to a child

(非正式)（讲给儿童听的）性启蒙知识

birds of a feather flock together

(proverb)people of the same sort or with the same tastes and interests will be found together

(谚)人以群分，物以类聚

these health professionals sure were birds of a feather.
这些保健专业人员当然属于同一类人。

do (one's) bird

(Brit. informal)serve a prison sentence

(英，非正式)服刑，坐牢

flip someone the bird (或 flip the bird)

(US)stick one's middle finger up at someone as a sign of contempt or anger

向某人竖中指（表示轻蔑或愤怒）

(strictly) for the birds

(informal)not worthy of consideration

(非正式)不值得考虑，算个鸟

mothering's for the birds.
养育孩子的事情不值得去考虑。

get the bird

(Brit. informal)be booed or jeered at

(英，非正式)被嘘，被嘲弄

give someone the bird

(Brit. informal)boo or jeer at someone

(英，非正式)嘘某人，喝某人倒彩；嘲弄某人

have a bird

(N. Amer. informal)be very shocked or agitated

(北美，非正式)震惊，焦躁不安

a little bird told me

(humorous)used to indicate that the speaker knows something but prefers to keep the identity of the informant a secret

(幽默)［用于表示说话者不愿透露向其提供消息者为何人］有人跟我说

a little bird told me it was your birthday.
有人告诉我那天是你的生日。

for the birds

Objectionable or worthless.

令人不快的或无用的

实用场景例句

a bird's nest with two eggs in it: 内有两只鸟蛋的鸟窝

a species of bird: 一种鸟

The area has a wealth of bird life.: 这个地区栖息着大量的鸟。

a wise old bird: 处世老练的人

She is that rare bird: a politician with a social conscience.: 她是这么一种少见的人：有社会良知的政治家。

They warned him that next time he'd find himself doing bird.: 他们警告他下次他可能就要进监狱了。

As usual, Wheeler, a wise old bird, got it right...: 和往常一样，惠勒——一个非常聪明的人——又做对了。

She was such a decent old bird.: 她是一个如此端庄的女人。

A bird skimmed over the stream.: 鸟儿掠过溪流.

He was able to shoot down a flying bird with the bow and arrow.: 他张弓搭箭能射落空中的飞鸟.

The bird is beating feebly.: 那只鸟的翅膀在无力地扑扇着.

The bird fluffed its feathers.: 鸟啄它的羽毛使之松散.

The bird tucked its wings.: 小鸟抿着翅膀.

The currents of air that the walls of the ship direct upwards, as well as in line of its course are enough to give the great bird with its immense wings sufficent sustenance and progress.: 沿着船壁向上引导的以及与航行方向一致的气流足以给这种长有特大翅膀的大鸟以充分的支撑力和前进力.

The cat is on the chair trying to get at the bird.: 猫在椅子上想逮那只鸟.

A bird skimmed low over the heather.: 一只鸟儿低掠过石南花.

Now that I've got my divorce, I feel as free as a bird.: 由于我已经离婚, 我觉得自由自在了.

I wish I were [ was ] a bird.: 但愿我能变成一只鸟.

The penguin is a flightless bird.: 企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟.

I want to fly, I want to be an unfettered bird.: 我想要飞，做一只无拘无束的小鸟。

He shot down another bird.: 他又击落了一只鸟.

The girl asked her father to free the bird from the cage.: 那女孩请求她父亲把鸟从笼子里放出去.

There's a bird in the tree.: 树上有只鸟.

The bird spread its wings.: 鸟伸展翅膀.

This bird employs its beak as a weapon.: 这种鸟用嘴作武器.

Crane is a kind of bird with very long legs and neck.: 鹤是一种腿和脖子都很长的鸟.