hoopoe的意思

hoopoe

英式音标['hupo]
美式英标['huːpuː; -pəʊ]

基本解释

n. 戴胜鸟

中文词源

hoopoe 戴胜鸟

来自拉丁语upupa,戴胜鸟，模仿这种鸟的叫声。

英文词源

hoopoe: hoopoe: see dupe
hoopoe (n.): 1660s, from Latin upupa, imitative of its cry (compare Greek epops "hoopoe").
If anybody smears himself with the blood of this bird on his way to bed, he will have nightmares about suffocating devils. [Cambridge bestiary, 12c.]

实用例句

1. There the gods turned Procne into a swallow , Philomela a nightingale and Tereus a hoopoe.: 在林中,众神将普鲁丝妮变为一只麻雀,将菲勒美拉变为一只夜莺,而将泰诺斯变成了一只戴胜科鸟.

2. There the gods turned Procne a swallow , Philomela a nightingale and Tereus a hoopoe.: 在林中,众神将普鲁丝妮变为一只麻雀,将菲勒美拉变为一只夜莺,而将泰胜鸟.

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