chaffinch
英 ['t??f?n(t)?]
美['t??'f?nt?]
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?chaffinches;
中文詞源
chaffinch 蒼頭燕雀chaff, 谷殼。finch, 雀。
英文詞源
- chaffinch
- chaffinch: [OE] Etymologically, a chaffinch is a finch which gets its food by pecking amongst the chaff and other grain debris in the barnyard. The word chaff itself (Old English ceaf) probably goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *kaf-, *kef- ‘chew’, which was also the source of chafer ‘beetle’ [OE] (literally the ‘chewing creature’) and jowl. (The verb chaff ‘make fun of’ [19], on the other hand, is probably an alteration of chafe, which came via Old French chaufer and Vulgar Latin *califāre from Latin calefacere ‘make warm’, a relative of English cauldron and calorie.)
=> chafer, jowl - chaffinch (n.)
- Fringilla c?lebs, Old English ceaffinc, literally "chaff-finch," so called for its habit of eating waste grain among the chaff on farms. See chaff + finch.
雙語例句
- 1. Thorpe next set out to determine exactly when the chaffinch learns to sing.
- 接著,索普就開始研究蒼頭燕雀是在什么時候?qū)W唱歌的.
來自辭典例句
- 2. Thorpe also showed that the chaffinch is selective in what it will imitate.
- 索普還證明,蒼頭燕雀學(xué)歌是有所選擇的.
來自辭典例句
- 3. The chaffinch has three or four songs and produces them in a specific order.
- 蒼頭燕雀合唱三、四種歌,唱的時候按著一定的先后次序.
來自辭典例句