| 词汇 | example_english_rook |
| 释义 | Examples of rookThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. There are other pests too with which committees have had to deal, such as rooks, wild geese, wood pigeons, etc. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My noble friend says that rooks do a certain amount of harm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My experience is that when you put in winter corn or spring corn rooks may, for about a fortnight, do a certain amount of damage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I admit that there is a little doubt about the rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He might find himself on the rooks if he gives a figure that may be invalidated by time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not clear that many ordinary working people get rooked and find themselves in great difficulty? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am aware that damage is being done to crops by rooks in districts where there is an undue local concentration of these birds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are certain woods in this country where rooks and jackdaws go quite indiscriminately. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing worse than to come back from a holiday feeling that one has been "rooked" right and left. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have not gone into the scientific methods of humane destruction of rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One may adopt the natural remedy, and leave these insects to their natural enemies, such as the rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What guarantee have the people of this country they are not being rooked? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it is not only a question of pigeons, starlings, rooks and a number of other birds can also give rise to nuisance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Investigations into the food of rooks under present agricultural conditions are in progress, but the results are not yet available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should hate to think of them as being classified with rooks, grey squirrels and goodness knows what else as a pest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As for the rooks, there is an old saying about them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If rabbits and rooks are to be destroyed in this way, it surely ought to be done after judicial inquiry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In certain parts of the country where rooks have become too numerous considerable injury to agriculture has resulted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know what safeguards there are against the public being rooked by such bodies because they are not controlled at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On others, she has talked about the consumer being rooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tremendous increase in the number of magpies and rooks is doing our wildlife a great deal of damage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I knew a case some little time ago of some valuable dogs which were poisoned by picking up poisoned rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one can tell me that in that case the taxpayer and the ratepayer have not been rooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Meanwhile, probably thousands of people are being "rooked". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Further investigation, however, convinced me that these birds were, in fact, rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They could easily be rooked by people who do not seem to have very fine feelings about these things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the one case the producer is liable to be ruined and in the other the consumer is rooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me first of all deal with the rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want the taxpayers to be rooked in any shape or form. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we must all agree that so far as rooks are concerned their depredations on farm crops are not very extensive unless they exist in excessive numbers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The unfortunate fact is that you have to play with chess men, and not with draughts, and there are able and powerful rooks, knights, and bishops. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I asked the farmer whether after his dressing he had seen any sick plover, rooks, starlings or pheasants or any birds that were likely to live on these grubs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been rooking them for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not rooks but gulls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, it may be said that many owners of rabbits and rooks do keep them within reasonable bounds for their own and their neighbour's protection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Rooks do a great deal of good. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One visitor to the set said that the rooks were represented by a half-dozen trained ravens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Place the king on the middle empty square, and the rooks on the remaining two squares. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the centre of town, nature is present in the crisscross boulevards, which are famous for providing a nesting place for rooks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The rooks will often be exchanged down the now open c-file. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks said he used testosterone and amphetamines during his whole 13-year career. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks, the principal character, possesses many of the vital battling techniques. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks is the only character who can call the spirits to change which one is in the player's active lineup. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A variety of animal species meet their needs for food, shelter, nesting, and rooking in pine rocklands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The position is a draw only if there is enough room for the defending king on the side with the rooks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. At the copse, the rest of the animals find out that it is inhabited by some rooks, who welcome them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Then let us order the rooks into an ordered list (sequence) by their positions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The rooks are arranged in such a way that there is no pair of rooks in the same row or column. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He offered both rooks to show that two active pieces are worth a dozen inactive pieces. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There were also heron rooks near one of the rapids. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Natural enemies include rooks, starlings and other birds, shrews, moles, ants, ground beetles, nematodes and mites. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There were some rooks in front of the door which was moving its legs and wings but seemed to be immobilizied. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. At the other extreme, with no rooks home, you only save the 4 castling bits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Three minor pieces are almost as strong as two rooks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Nb7, which interferes with both rooks and so threatens both 2. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To further enhance their army, the king is attended with knights, rooks, and bishops, who are the kings loyal henchmen. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks said he used testosterone and amphetamines during his 13-year career. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Be6, but this interferes with the rook's guard of e5, and so allows 3. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The first of these is intransitive capturing rooks capture knights, knights capture bishops and bishops capture rooks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To assess the effect of the imposed limitation rooks must not attack each other, let us consider the problem without such limitation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The house was so called because loud rooks - blackbirds of the family corvidae - constantly hovered around the place. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks nest in large, noisy colonies consisting of multiple nests, often untidily crammed into a close group of treetops called a rookery. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks are among the three pieces that can fly. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks, bishops, and knights move as they do in chess in any given plane. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Based on previous experience and information from stakeholders, a draft corvus management plan will be prepared to handle the conflict situations caused by rooks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Another example: two rooks on d3 and h5, either one of which may move to d5. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks developed a surgical procedure and specialized implant for the treatment for hip dysplasia in dogs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks and a spirit are always in the player's party, providing two other spots for party members. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Thus, the rook's third rank would be the third rank counting from that player's side of the board. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A pair of rooks on the player's seventh rank is often a sign of a winning position. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The trees became infested by chalcid wasps and the rooks left in the 1930s. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The solution is also easy for rooks and kings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The solution for rooks is to place them all on one of files or ranks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are also no long-range pieces such as rooks and bishops. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Exchanging rooks would also result in a draw. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Woodpigeons and rooks pick at the stubble and aquatic birds such as oystercatchers forage in the water meadows. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other families are the folded cube graphs and the square rook's graphs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are no open files in this position for the rooks to exploit. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Similar ideas apply to placing rooks on open files and knights on active, central squares. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rooks are as clever at making and using simple tools with their beaks as chimpanzees are with their hands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Feeling refreshed after a few days spent with the rooks in the copse, the animals proceed journey. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The black rooks are placed the same, for the same advantage. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Another type of win with a four-point material advantage is the double exchange two rooks versus any two minor pieces. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Because a rook's graph is perfect, the number of colors needed in any coloring of the graph is just the size of its largest clique. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The origin of the strain carried by the rooks is unknown. The rook and the bishop - both far-reaching pieces - have the limitation that they can only move in straight lines. Indeed, depending on how the game unfolds, the weaker player may conclude that his opponent was not allowed to move his king's rook or perhaps his king. Effective measures of control are not practicable at this season of the year when the rooks are roosting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As it is agreed that rooks do good as well as harm, is it wise to carry out their destruction on such a vast scale? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am extremely worried about when the rooks come home to roost for the payment of this aircraft. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Preliminary field trials have shown that it is possible to catch rooks, jackdaws and feral pigeons with narcotised baits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should not the man who has suffered damage from rooks or rabbits have a civil remedy by going to a court? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is more than doubtful whether rooks do not do as much good as harm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give my own experience of rooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The county councils would not destroy rabbits or rooks in the interests of the landlord. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am quite certain that both pheasants and rooks are quite capable, in correct proportions, of controlling the wireworm population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In what way has the consumer been rooked—there is no other word for it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only in areas where the number of rooks is excessive will action be taken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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