| 单词 | beak |
| 释义 | beakWord family adjectivebeakedbeakynounbeak Birds beak /biːk/ ●●○ noun [countableC] 1. HBBthe hard pointed mouth of a bird 鸟嘴，喙 SYN bill →5 see picture at 见图 bird of prey 2. HBHa large pointed nose – used humorously 鹰钩鼻〔幽默用法〕 3. the beak British EnglishBrE old-fashioned informal a judge or a male teacher 法官；男教师 Examples from the Corpus beak• Some were already asleep in the long grass, beaks tucked under wings.• A fine south doorway has some strange looking beak heads in the richly moulded arch.• The movement inside her filled her completely, an endless fluttering of wings, intense and urgent pecking of beaks.• A nestling's gape, or wide open beak, provides a stimulus to the parents to feed it.• The swallows came and went like carpenters, their beaks full of twigs.• Its surface is broken with coots, paddling away, dipping their beaks and twitching the water down their throats.• Cormorants can be pretty nasty with their beaks.• Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts, yellow beak in a grimace - take me with you? (1200-1300) Old French bec, from Latin beccus |
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