| 词汇 | example_english_bird-of-passage |
| 释义 | Examples of bird of passageThese 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. Profit is a birdofpassage always on the wing as opposed to interest, which is permanent, inexorable and heartless. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That does not mean that someone is a birdofpassage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he a birdofpassage or is he a permanent resident? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, everyone of us is only a birdofpassage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may in the course of our discussions discover that this creature is really a birdofpassage and not a resident. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That gives the go-by to the birdofpassage, no matter how many constituencies he has travelled through. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that in theory a class teacher is only supposed to be a birdofpassage—that it is a means whereby he shall become some day a head teacher. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Against that, you have the man who is a birdofpassage and who may have moved through three or four constituencies in the course of the last two months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are birds of passage. In that connection, we should remember that we are but birds of passage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, we would be mere birds of passage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are necessarily birds of passage, moving from one part of the world into government and out again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We wish to protect not only the breeding birds but also the birds of passage, who only use this country as a resting-place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are gorgeous birds of passage now; they will become birds of paradise one day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Parents also look for a reasonably stable staff, for how can children properly be cared for if the staff are only birds of passage? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not true that these birds of passage have changed the colour of their plumage rather frequently? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The original tenants are compelled to make way for these temporary birds of passage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should we give unconditional citizenship to birds of passage? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those awkward political birds of passage must only know what they need to know. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would appear that there is a permanent population of birds of passage of about 100. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If conditions are not nearly as good as they had imagined they might be, they become birds of passage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The others were just birds of passage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be absurd to expect these high-minded birds of passage to formulate far-reaching schemes of penal improvement and, of course, they have not done so. 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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