| 词汇 | daw |
| 释义 | daw noun[ C ] UKliteraryuk /dɔː/ us /dɑː/ a jackdaw（同 jackdaw） GlobalP/iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Neville Cardus described Miller in his prime as a young eagle among crows and daws. They do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at. But she, remembering her old ruined hall and all the windy clamour of the daws about her hollow turret Other wild birds bird of paradise blackbird blue tit bluebird bluejay goldfinch greenfinch honeyeater hoopoe hornbill magpie martin mockingbird mynah nighthawk sparrow squab starling swift swiftlet Examples of dawdaw All about this lusty rogue dangled divers pouches and bags of different sizes and kinds, a dozen or more, with great, wide, gaping mouths, like a brood of hungry daws. From Project Gutenberg Daw has been fighting for tougher regulations on payday lenders for years. From Washington Times But today it is all a crumbling heap; ivy, rooks and daws hold the place in fee, each pushing hard for sole possession. From Project Gutenberg You must not wear your heart upon your sleeve, or daws will peck at it. From Project Gutenberg The last would prove fallacious, and expose you to the reproach of the daw in borrowed feathers. From Project Gutenberg The sun came out and came out and came out; birds chirruped in the hedgerows and the daws in the high poplars called and scolded. From Project Gutenberg He had cast out his heart for the rooks and the daws. From Project Gutenberg To peck like daws at one so far above them, so divinely far above them! From Project Gutenberg They do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at. From Project Gutenberg The daws may peck upon one's sleeve without injury, but whoever wears his heart upon his tympanum gets it not far from the neck. From Project Gutenberg Women are like daws; their sympathy comes but to peck. From Project Gutenberg My heart is bedded in a crust of flint, and no daw shall peck at it. From Project Gutenberg Till the rooks and daws whirled clamoring and screaming. From Project Gutenberg A couple of daws flew round the battlements of the tower, they cawed and screamed, and told one another that underneath there stood a sportsman who was seeking his game. From Project Gutenberg All about this lusty rogue dangled divers pouches and bags of different sizes and kinds, a dozen or more, with great, wide, gaping mouths, like a brood of hungry daws. From Project Gutenberg 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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