| 词汇 | dodo |
| 释义 | dodo noun[ C ] uk /ˈdəʊ.dəʊ/ us /ˈdoʊ.doʊ/pluraldodos a large bird, unable to fly, that no longer exists渡渡鸟（一种大型鸟类，不能飞翔，现已灭绝） Aunt_Spray/iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages 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 It is as fabulous as the dodo, the salamander, or the phoenix. Its carnivorous enemies among the lower animals, would have cut short the existence of the dodo, even if man had never planted his conquering footsteps upon that island. The dodo of Mauritius was exterminated by swine, whose bipedal descendants have exterminated many other species since that time. There can be no doubt that the dodo was one of those instances, well known to naturalists, of a species, or part of a species, remaining permanently in an undeveloped state. With our own experience—and that is somewhat extensive—of sailors in general, and Dutch ones in particular, we must infer that these dodos were very, very fat, indeed. Examples of dodododo We have an entry for dodo but dead as the dodo (which is surely the main point) isn't mentioned. The third type of constraint-neutral utterance consists of juxtaposed translation equivalents, like ' 'sleeping dodo' '. The importance of knowing a dodo is a bird : categories and inferences in two-year-olds. When languages are gone they are gone, and we need the right kind of language to defend them before too many more go the way of the dodo. The "no aid to industrial lame ducks "policy is as dead as if the ducks had been lame dodos. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall have to be careful that in many areas the sea urchin does not go the way of the dodo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This issue of steel nationalisation is as dead as the dodo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is also the old free trade, which most people regard as being as dead as the dodo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us agree once and for all that this business of fee-paying is an argument as dead as a dodo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We know that the statutory committees are as dead as the dodo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were all waiting for him to come forward and speak, but instead he drew a wonderful picture of a dodo on the blackboard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The new clause is like feeding aspirin to a dodo unless we can find a way to tackle inflation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After yesterday, may we take it that the concept of non-premium gas has gone the way of the dodo? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The unconditional most-favoured-nation clause is as dead as the dodo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The effect will be that wage structures at present based on incentive bonuses and so on will become as dead as the dodo. 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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