crow
英 [krəʊ]
美[kro]
- vi. 啼叫；报晓
- n. [鸟] 乌鸦；鸡鸣；撬棍
词态变化
复数: crows;第三人称单数: crows;过去式: crowed;过去分词: crowed;现在分词: crowing;
助记提示
1. imitative of bird's cry.
2. cry => crow.
3. Like the word cry, crow is also the imitative of bird's cry.
4. cr- (拟声) => cry, crow, croak, crack.
5. Sound of Crows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4E9enGqRc
6. 模拟、拟声自乌鸦的叫声。
2. cry => crow.
3. Like the word cry, crow is also the imitative of bird's cry.
4. cr- (拟声) => cry, crow, croak, crack.
5. Sound of Crows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4E9enGqRc
6. 模拟、拟声自乌鸦的叫声。
中文词源
crow 乌鸦
拟声词，模仿乌鸦的叫声。比较crane, cock.
英英释意
- 1. black birds having a raucous call
- 2. the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)
- 3. an instance of boastful talk;
- "his brag is worse than his fight"
- "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
英文词源
- crow
- crow: [OE] The verb crow began in prehistoric West Germanic as an imitation of the harsh call of the cockerel. Its relatives still survive in other Germanic languages, including German krähen and Dutch kraaien. Early examples of birds other than cockerels being described as ‘crowing’ are comparatively rare, but nevertheless there seems no doubt that the verb formed the basis of the name given to birds of the genus Corvus [OE]. The crowbar [19] was so named from the resemblance of its splayed end to a crow’s foot.
- 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
- Indian tribe of the American Midwest, the name is a rough translation of their own name, Apsaruke.
- 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.
同义词辨析
boast, brag, crow, pride
这些动词均含有"自夸，吹嘘"之意。
boast： 普通用词，指对自己所做的事，自己的长处、财富以及家庭等的夸耀，常含言过其实的意味。
brag： 非正式用词，其夸耀和吹嘘意味强于boast，到了过分夸大，有时令人讨厌的地步。
crow： 多指大声吵嚷地吹嘘，夸耀自己做某事比他人做得好。
pride： 与boast的意义较接近，指炫耀、夸口，自鸣得意，常与反身代词连用。
考试真题
- After the Netherlands, Britain is Europe’s most crowed country.
出自-2016年考研阅读原文
词组搭配
eat crow
(N. Amer. informal)be humiliated by having to admit one's defeats or mistakes
(北美, 非正式)被迫认输；被迫承认失败
as the crow flies
In a straight line.
沿直线地
实用场景例句
- ‘I've won, I've won! ’ she crowed.
- “我赢了，我赢了！”她得意忘形地叫道。
牛津词典
- She gave a little crow of triumph.
- 她轻轻地发出了胜利的欢呼声。
牛津词典
- The villages are no more than a mile apart as the crow flies.
- 这些村庄直线距离相隔不超过一英里。
牛津词典
- He won't stop crowing about his victory.
- 他滔滔不绝地夸耀自己的胜利。
牛津词典
- I live at Mesa, Washington, about 10 miles as the crow flies from Hanford.
- 我住在华盛顿的梅萨，到汉福德的直线距离约为10英里。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 'I'm not sure I've ever driven a better lap,' crowed a delighted Irvine.
- “我想这也许是我开得最棒的一圈，”欧文高兴地欢呼道。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The cock crows and the dawn chorus begins.
- 雄鸡报晓，鸟儿欢叫。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Edwards is already crowing about his assured victory...
- 爱德华兹已经在为自己确定无疑的胜利自鸣得意了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- We've seen them all crowing that the movement is dead.
- 我们看到他们所有人都为那场运动的覆灭而洋洋自得。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She was crowing with delight...
- 她欢呼雀跃。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I saw a man leveling a gun at a crow.
- 我看见一个人正用枪瞄准一只乌鸦.
《简明英汉词典》
- The Crow people were based in the Bighorn Mountains.
- 克劳人的基地在洛基山羊山.
期刊摘选
- The crow croaked disaster.
- 乌鸦呱呱叫预报灾难.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The cock had a strange habit. It did not crow at dawn, but at midnight.
- 这只公鸡有个怪习惯, 不在黎明啼叫, 而在半夜里叫.
期刊摘选
- The rooster's crow woke me.
- 公鸡的啼叫声把我吵醒了.
《简明英汉词典》
- Peasants often rise at cock crow to work in the fields.
- 农民们常常鸡鸣而起,下地干活.
期刊摘选
- The science researchers in Cambridge University do a experiment on crow.
- 英国剑桥大学的研究员针对乌鸦进行了一项实验.
期刊摘选
- At last the water rose the brim the small crow drank water happily and smiled.
- 最后,水终于升到罐口了,小乌鸦高兴地喝着水,笑了.
期刊摘选
- Away in the town the cocks began to crow for false dawn.
- 远处市镇里,公鸡过早地喔喔啼叫起来.
期刊摘选
- " In what place did the cock crow, when all the world could hear it? "
- “ 在什么地方,公鸡一叫, 全世界都能听到? ”
英汉非文学 - 民俗
- Little boy full of joy, little girl sweet and small. Cock does crow, so do you.
- 小小的男孩无比欢快.小小的女孩玲珑可爱. 公鸡喔喔叫, 你也高声叫.
期刊摘选
- Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.
- 金鸡初啼, 黎明鸟语, 那闪烁着朝晖的树木和草原的景色,这一切他认为无可比拟.
《用法词典》
- Twelve 23 cockerels painted on the sails puff in the wind and crow proudly.
- 船帆上绘着的十二只小公鸡迎着风雄赳赳气昂昂,引颈高歌.
期刊摘选
- Crow does not pick crow's eyes.
- 同室不操戈;同类不相残.
期刊摘选
- What is worse, he is aa crow , and yet he insists on cawing at the masses.
- 何况这是党八股, 简直是老鸦声调,却偏要向人民群众哇哇地叫.
期刊摘选
- My voice is getting as hoarse as an old crow with this constant reading.
- 由于这样不停的朗读,我的声音变得沙哑起来了.
期刊摘选
- I can not say the crow is white, but must need calling a spade a spade.
- 我不能说乌鸦是白的, 惟有是啥说啥.
期刊摘选
- The crow of the cock is a harbinger of dawn.
- 鸡啼报晓.
《简明英汉词典》