beak
英 [bi?k]
美[bik]
- n. [鳥] 鳥嘴；鷹鉤鼻子；地方執法官；男教師
- n. (Beak)人名；(英、西)比克
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詞態變化
復數:?beaks;
中文詞源
beak 鳥喙
詞源同peck, 啄，擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- beak
- beak: [13] English acquired beak via Old French bec from Latin beccus, which was probably borrowed from some Gaulish word (the original Latin word for ‘beak’ was rostrum). The Roman historian Suetonius (c. 69–140 AD) tells of one Antonius Primus, a native of Toulouse, who was nicknamed as a boy Beccus, ‘that is, hen’s beak’. The Old English term for ‘beak’ was bile ‘bill’.
=> soubriquet - beak (n.)
- mid-13c., "bird's bill," from Old French bec "beak," figuratively "mouth," also "tip or point of a nose, a lance, a ship, a shoe," from Latin beccus (source also of Italian becco, Spanish pico), said by Suetonius ("De vita Caesarum" 18) to be of Gaulish origin, perhaps from Gaulish beccus, possibly related to Celtic stem bacc- "hook." Or there may be a link in Old English becca "pickax, sharp end." Jocular sense of "human nose" is from 1854 (but also was used mid-15c. in the same sense).
雙語例句
- 1. The gull held the fish in its beak.
- 海鷗嘴里叼著魚。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. the bird's horny beak
- 鳥的角質喙
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. The bird had a worm in its beak.
- 鳥兒嘴里叼著一條蟲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. This bird employs its beak as a weapon.
- 這種鳥用嘴作武器.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. This bird, sharp of eye and deft of beak, can accurately peck the flying insects in the air.
- 這只鳥眼疾嘴快, 能準確地把空中的飛蟲啄住.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》