| 词汇 | canary |
| 释义 | canary noun uk /kəˈneə.ri/ us /kəˈner.i/ [ C ] a small, yellow bird that is well known for its singing, sometimes kept as a pet: 金丝雀 She had a canary in a birdcage. JuTi/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages [ U ](alsocanary yellow[ C or U ]) a bright yellow colour: 铬黄色，鲜黄色 I don't know what compelled me to buy a blazer in a shocking shade of canary. This stylish toaster is available in in mint green, canary yellow, and lavender blue. Hot pinks, canary yellows, lime greens and electric blues give a jaunty air to his art. There were parrots and canaries in cages, singing loudly. In the street market you'll find pet canaries, rabbits, flowers, plants, postcards and books. The phone comes in a host of ultra-bright shades including Electric Lime, Azure and Canary. The eye shadow is available in every imaginable shade from pea green to canary yellow. Birds commonly kept as pets budgie cockatoo galah homing pigeon Indian mynah lorikeet macaw mynah parakeet parrot pigeon racing pigeon rosella sulphur-crested cockatoo You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Less common colours Idiomscanary in a coalmine sing like a canary canary adjective uk /kəˈneə.ri/ us /kəˈner.i/ (alsocanary yellow) bright yellow in colour: All anyone remembers about my performance is that I wore a canary jacket. The butterfly is bright yellow, almost a canary shade. She drove up in a canary yellow sportscar. I don't want my hair to go that canary colour. I got a new bicycle, and it was canary yellow. Terry wore white jeans, a crisp white shirt and a canary yellow V-necked sweater. Wonderful canary yellow crocuses are in bloom outside. Less common colours apple green argent ashy avocado baby blue carmine cerise dun emerald puce ruddily rust saffron salmon pink sanguine sapphire shocking pink sky blue slaty verdure I do think that it would make me very happy to have a dear little bird, that would know me, and turn his bright, black eyes up to me, like Mary Day's little canary. In Italy, therefore, we find the first tame canaries, and here they are still reared in great numbers. The canary in the green cage that hung in the window put its head on one side and tweaked a seed husk out into Philip's face, then twittered defiantly. Then presently some of the birds fell to noise making just as you will hear canaries sing when some one whistles, or women talk when a piano commences to play. There were all sorts of birds here, those tiny birds from the African coast one sees in the shops of the Riviera, canaries and parrots. canary | American Dictionarycanary noun[ C ] us/kəˈner·i/ a small, yellow bird, popular as a pet in a cage Examples of canarycanary On the other hand, our repeated attempts to infect quails, chickens and canaries with raptor trypanosomes were unsuccessful (data not shown). My father is gone, now begins the more delicate, more distracted, more hopeless noise led by the voices of the two canaries. The poor immunogenicity of viral vectors such as recombinant canary pox will probably see them replaced as replicating viral vectors with greater immunogenicity are identified and characterised. The cat ate the canary. Canaries and goldfish are kept in enclosures of some kind, and they are not generally known as "the friend of man". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The miners of old took canaries down into the mines with them to warn of poisonous gases. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That was bad news for the canaries but good news for the miners. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But one thing we do know—and it is that the birds, like the miner's canary, give some indication as to what has happened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A canary is taken down with the men, and, if carbon dioxide is in the air, the canary at once discloses the fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will quote one particular instance which came before us, that of the disappearing canary in the cage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only co-operation that they understand is the kind of co-operation that the cat proffers to the canary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a classic case because, ever since it has been unnecessary to take canaries into mines under these conditions, they have not been taken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have bred in my time most small animals, from canaries to carthorses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The canary has changed but the song remains the same. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet, if we take away their feeling of security—even by removing their pet cat or canary—we may do children irreparable harm. 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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