英:[ˈwʊdpekə(r)]
美:[ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ]
英:[ˈwʊdpekə(r)]
美:[ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ]
wood·peck·er
wUd pe kr
复数:woodpeckers
noun
any of several related birds of various sizes that have a strong, chisel-like bill used to penetrate tree trunks, strong claws, and stiff tails adapted to climbing trees.
1520年代,来自 wood(n. 木材)+ pecker(n. 啄木鸟)。
The first known use of woodpecker was circa 1530
woodshednoun
a shed for storing wood and especially firewood
woodpilenoun
a pile of wood and especially firewood
woodpeckernoun
any of numerous brightly marked birds with strong claws and stiff tail feathers used in climbing or resting on tree trunks, a long flexible tongue, and a very hard bill used to drill into trees to get insects for food and to dig out holes for nesting
1 “Well, it will be interesting to see what a fisherman suddenly knows about a woodpecker that no one’s even seen in sixty years,” Lucas replied.
2 A robin, I saw, a woodpecker, a magpie, a blackbird, and far off I think I heard a nightingale, though I’m not sure you get them in January.
3 “Don't work like a stalling woodpecker,” urged a Tawny Owl affectionately.
4 I heard the “Bam, bam, bam” of a woodpecker high in the top of a box elder snag.
5 “Yes. But not today. Today we join expert tour guide Merle Hodge on a lavish journey through the Arkansas bayous to seek out the elusive Lazarus woodpecker.”
6 But if it's a woodpecker she will find no man at all.
但倘若看到的是一只啄木鸟的话那她就不会找到如意郎君。
7 Some birds, like owls and woodpeckers, would spend the winter nesting and eating the island’s few remaining edibles.
8 Outside the air smells summery, of mown grass and warm tar, and from somewhere high in the trees I hear a woodpecker rapping.
9 The burger itself wasn’t made from woodpeckers, of course, but instead was a quarter pound of beef with ketchup, mayonnaise, and barbecue sauce.
10 What do we get if we cross woodpecker with a homing pigeon?
如果让啄木鸟与家鸽交配,我们会得到什么?
11 Dr. Webb says that people like John Barling will always be looking for something, whether it’s a two-foot-tall woodpecker or the meaning of life; they are simply born and stay incomplete.
12 Grasshoppers crackled, a locust buzzed, a woodpecker blammed against a faraway hollow tree.
13 Aside from being completely different species, there is a sig-nificant yet odd difference in the color of the Lazarus woodpecker and the pileated one, the latter having a distinctly darker bill.
14 Pests have natural enemies eagles, owls, yellow you, woodpeckers, swallows and so on.
害虫天敌有鹰 、 猫头鹰 、 黄鼬 、 啄木鸟 、 燕子等.
15 Hear about the woodpeckers in Indiana and learn how to attract them to your own yard.
16 I am like a woodpecker. When I want to accomplish something, I just keep at it.
我就像只啄木鸟, 当我想要完成某事时, 坚持下去就是了.
17 The woodpecker just looked on coldly, and then flew away contentedly.
而在旁边冷眼看着的啄木鸟, 这才满意地飞走了.
18 It is simply like a woodpecker.
它明明是只啄木鸟.
19 I like the woodpecker that knocks against the tree outside my window.
20 Woodpeckers inhabit in hollow trees.
啄木鸟栖息在中空的树中。
1 啄木鸟
woodhewer piculet highhole tapper pecker peckerwood sapsucker heigh-ho high-holder woodjobber creeper
2 众多种
mouse palm bat jack swallow swift monarch squirrel emerald jay orchid cactus grunt clam tortoise tit hummingbird viper heron chameleon wallaby gull gecko weaver mackerel cuckoo salamander boa thrush lark moray kingfisher Bunting shrew tetra opossum grenadier martin cockatoo Wren goby plover sandpiper wrasse whitefly bromeliad hornbill euonymus tanager hagfish sculpin fritillary sunbird Loach crake ichneumon ovenbird scorpionfish hoverfly filefish cisticola white-eye cotinga mojarra madtom tonguefish cuckoo-shrike coral snake fruit bat diving beetle toothed whale tyrant flycatcher mole salamander poison arrow frog gall midge darkling beetle cardinal fish