英汉词典

bird 基本解释

• n. 鸟；家伙；羽毛球
• vt. 向…喝倒彩；起哄
• vi. 猎鸟；观察研究野鸟
• n. (Bird)人名；(英、西)伯德

bird 词态变化

bird 中文词源

词源不详。

bird 英文词源

bird

bird: [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term until the 14th century, and the process took many hundreds of years to complete. Its source is quite unknown; it has no obvious relatives in the Germanic languages, or in any other Indo-European language.

The connotations of its original meaning have led to speculation that it is connected with breed and brood (the usual Old English form was brid, but the r and i subsequently became transposed in a process known as metathesis), but no convincing evidence for this has ever been advanced. As early as 1300, bird was used for ‘girl’, but this was probably owing to confusion with another similar Middle English word, burde, which also meant ‘young woman’.

The usage crops up from time to time in later centuries, clearly as an independent metaphorical application, but there does not really seem to be an unbroken chain of occurrences leading up to the sudden explosion in the use of bird for ‘young woman’ in the 20th century. Of other figurative applications of the word, ‘audience disapproval’ (as in ‘get the bird’) comes from the hissing of geese, and in ‘prison sentence’ bird is short for bird lime, rhyming slang for time.

bird (n.1)

Old English bird, rare collateral form of bridd, originally "young bird, nestling" (the usual Old English for "bird" being fugol, for which see fowl (n.)), which is of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to brood and breed is rejected by OED as "quite inadmissible." Metathesis of -r- and -i- was complete 15c.

Middle English, in which bird referred to various young animals and even human beings, may have preserved the original meaning of this word. Despite its early attestation, bridd is not necessarily the oldest form of bird. It is usually assumed that -ir- from -ri- arose by metathesis, but here, too, the Middle English form may go back to an ancient period. [Liberman]

Figurative sense of "secret source of information" is from 1540s. Bird dog (n.) attested from 1832, a gun dog used in hunting game birds; hence the verb (1941) meaning "to follow closely." Bird-watching attested from 1897. Bird's-eye view is from 1762. For the birds recorded from 1944, supposedly in allusion to birds eating from droppings of horses and cattle.

A byrde yn honde ys better than three yn the wode. [c. 1530]

bird (n.3)

"middle finger held up in a rude gesture," slang derived from 1860s expression give the big bird "to hiss someone like a goose," kept alive in vaudeville slang with sense of "to greet someone with boos, hisses, and catcalls" (1922), transferred 1960s to the "up yours" hand gesture (the rigid finger representing the hypothetical object to be inserted) on notion of defiance and contempt. Gesture itself seems to be much older (the human anatomy section of a 12c. Latin bestiary in Cambridge describes the middle finger as that "by means of which the pursuit of dishonour is indicated").

bird (n.2)

"maiden, young girl," c. 1300, confused with burd (q.v.), but felt by later writers as a figurative use of bird (n.1). Modern slang meaning "young woman" is from 1915, and probably arose independently of the older word.

bird 词组搭配

bird 英文释义

1. warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

2. the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

3. informal terms for a (young) woman

4. a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

5. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

bird 双语例句

1. Our school had a mascot known as Freddy Bird.

我们学校有一个名叫“弗雷迪小鸟”的吉祥物。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The sand martin is a brown bird with white underneath.

崖沙燕是一种褐羽白腹的鸟。

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3. At one point a bird trilled in the Conservatory.

有那么一刻，一只鸟儿在温室里啼叫。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Among the most spectacular sights are the great sea-bird colonies.

庞大的海鸟群是最壮观的景象之一。

来自柯林斯例句

5. Put stuffing into the cavity and truss the bird.

把填料放到腔内，把鸟的腿和翅膀扎紧。

来自柯林斯例句

bird 实用场景例句

a bird's nest with two eggs in it

内有两只鸟蛋的鸟窝

牛津词典

a species of bird

一种鸟

牛津词典

The area has a wealth of bird life.

这个地区栖息着大量的鸟。

牛津词典

a wise old bird

处世老练的人

牛津词典

She is that rare bird: a politician with a social conscience.

她是这么一种少见的人：有社会良知的政治家。

牛津词典

They warned him that next time he'd find himself doing bird.

他们警告他下次他可能就要进监狱了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

As usual, Wheeler, a wise old bird, got it right...

和往常一样，惠勒——一个非常聪明的人——又做对了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She was such a decent old bird.

她是一个如此端庄的女人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

A bird skimmed over the stream.

鸟儿掠过溪流.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He was able to shoot down a flying bird with the bow and arrow.

他张弓搭箭能射落空中的飞鸟.

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The bird is beating feebly.

那只鸟的翅膀在无力地扑扇着.

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The bird fluffed its feathers.

鸟啄它的羽毛使之松散.

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The bird tucked its wings.

小鸟抿着翅膀.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The currents of air that the walls of the ship direct upwards, as well as in line of its course are enough to give the great bird with its immense wings sufficent sustenance and progress.

沿着船壁向上引导的以及与航行方向一致的气流足以给这种长有特大翅膀的大鸟以充分的支撑力和前进力.

《用法词典》

The cat is on the chair trying to get at the bird.

猫在椅子上想逮那只鸟.

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A bird skimmed low over the heather.

一只鸟儿低掠过石南花.

《简明英汉词典》

Now that I've got my divorce, I feel as free as a bird.

由于我已经离婚, 我觉得自由自在了.

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I wish I were [ was ] a bird.

但愿我能 变成 一只鸟.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The penguin is a flightless bird.

企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟.

《简明英汉词典》

I want to fly, I want to be an unfettered bird.

我想要飞，做一只无拘无束的小鸟。

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He shot down another bird.

他又击落了一只鸟.

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The girl asked her father to free the bird from the cage.

那女孩请求她父亲把鸟从笼子里放出去.

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There's a bird in the tree.

树上有只鸟.

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The bird spread its wings.

鸟伸展翅膀.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

This bird employs its beak as a weapon.

这种鸟用嘴作武器.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Crane is a kind of bird with very long legs and neck.

鹤是一种腿和脖子都很长的鸟.

《简明英汉词典》