crow

• vi. 啼叫；報曉
• n. [鳥] 烏鴉；雞鳴；撬棍

擬聲詞，模仿烏鴉的叫聲。比較crane, cock.

crow

crow: [OE] The verb crow began in prehistoric West Germanic as an imitation of the harsh call of the cockerel. Its relatives still survive in other Germanic languages, including German krähen and Dutch kraaien. Early examples of birds other than cockerels being described as ‘crowing’ are comparatively rare, but nevertheless there seems no doubt that the verb formed the basis of the name given to birds of the genus Corvus [OE]. The crowbar [19] was so named from the resemblance of its splayed end to a crow’s foot.

crow (n.)

Old English crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is perhaps based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, American English, but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). The image of a crow's foot for the wrinkles appearing with age at the corner of the eye is from late 14c. ("So longe mote ye lyve Til crowes feet be growen under youre ye." [Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, c. 1385]). Phrase as the crow flies recorded from 1800.

Crow

Indian tribe of the American Midwest, the name is a rough translation of their own name, Apsaruke.

crow (v.)

Old English crawian "make a loud noise like a crow" (see crow (n.)); sense of "exult in triumph" is 1520s, perhaps in part because the English crow is a carrion-eater. Related: Crowed; crowing.

1. She gave a little crow of triumph.

她輕輕地發出了勝利的歡呼聲。

來自《權威詞典》

2. I saw a man leveling a gun at a crow.

我看見一個人正用槍瞄準一隻烏鴉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The crow of the cock is a harbinger of dawn.

雞啼報曉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The wings of a crow can never cover up the sun.

烏鴉的翅膀遮不住太陽.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. The rooster's crow woke me.

公雞的啼叫聲把我吵醒了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》