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noun flɒkflɑk 1A number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or travelling together. 鸟群 一群海鸥。 Example sentencesExamples - Further out to sea, a flock of gannets rested on the surface, digesting their meal.
- Early reports from the crew indicated they may have struck a flock of birds in flight.
- A flock of four birds is the most common size in Parus during winter.
- Members of bird flocks and fish shoals check for predators less often and spend less time hiding in shelters than do solitary individuals.
- Like a flock of migrating birds, however, the mass changes formation.
- Anseriform birds often flock together outside the breeding season and may form groups ranging in size from a few individuals to many thousands.
- Possible Landscape begins with piercing tones that ring together like a flock of synthetic birds, each tuned to a single, unwavering note.
- For most of us, a more familiar example is a flock of birds, all moving together as if under the direction of a leader or some central command.
- Birds in flocks so dense that they resembled smoke clouds: thousands of tree swallows, wave after wave of American robins.
- A flock of birds off in the distance scattered away.
- They shot through the clouds and scared a flock of native birds.
- Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
- After the trials, we put colored bands back on males and returned the birds to their flocks to maintain a standardized social setting for all other males prior to their trials.
- A flock of birds took flight, startled by his voice.
- Adan clutched onto me and screamed, disturbing the flocks of birds resting in trees nearby.
- When we say the gravel crackles under our feet, the sun has turned purple through the clouds, or a flock of birds is swooping overhead, all of it must be literally true.
- In late summer we checked for retained offspring among the first-year birds in flocks using behavior and DNA fingerprinting.
- A flock of birds surges impetuously from the thickets and takes flight towards the windmills that decorate the landscape.
- After that they may join a flock of other juvenile birds.
- Thin clouds floated in the sky, and I could see a flock of birds passing by the clouds on a formation.
Synonyms group, flight, congregation - 1.1 A number of domestic animals, especially sheep, goats, or geese, that are kept together.
家畜群，家禽群（尤指绵羊、山羊、鹅） 一群海鸥。 Example sentencesExamples - They also run a flock of early lambing sheep and a small suckler cow herd.
- If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
- There are lots of llama shows around the United States; they can be used as guardians to protect flocks of sheep, goats and other animals.
- The area around Hawes and Leyburn became a temporary home to teams of men dedicated to culling whole cattle herds and sheep flocks.
- Tall baked-mud walls enclose its fields and gardens, the trees twitch with little birds and shy women and girls tend flocks of sheep and goats.
- Most of it is grazed by flocks of sheep, goats, camels and cattle, often causing severe damage to vegetation.
- Yohanna climbed the path over the mountain, and there at the crest in the middle of a flock of sheep and goats, stood Yusef and David, tending three donkeys laden with packs.
- The group halted their horses at the gate as a flock of sheep went ambling past.
- Huge flocks of sheep and goats in the northwest are stripping the land of its protective vegetation, creating a dust bowl on a scale not seen before.
- At midmorning we saw a flock of spotted goats being herded across the road, and saw down the meadow the man who drove them.
- So I can only empathise with farmers who have lost entire herds of cattle or flocks of sheep.
- Their herds of cattle and flocks of sheep from New South Wales were eagerly bought by the early South Australian settlers.
- The farm has a flock of 85 sheep but there are plans to build up the numbers by keeping some of the ewe lambs for breeding stock this year.
- When they beached the ships, they saw flocks of sheep and goats and they killed them for feasting.
- A local woman saw the animal, which she described as about five times the size of a domestic cat, among a flock of sheep.
- There are the tents of nomads and flocks of sheep and goats with children and women in attendance.
- They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.
- Just about all the staff are very conservative, good church-going types - and I stick out like a purple goat in a flock of white-washed sheep.
- There were a few camels and traditional black Bedouin tents here and there with large flocks of sheep and goats nearby.
- In normal times, the Moores work the farm in two separate units, producing winter oats and winter wheat as well as fattening 600 head of cattle and a flock of store sheep.
- 1.2 A large number or crowd of people.
大群人 a flock of paparazzi tailed them all over London Example sentencesExamples - One year as she'd stepped off the plane to Cyprus, a whole flock of people had gathered around her.
- I noticed a crowd was gathering, a flock of women in huddles whispering to each other on the outskirts of the crowd.
- Still, the flock of visitors, not just the Kuta crowd with its uniform of tie-dyes and beads, keeps coming back.
- For she gathered around her a flock of virgins, a fruit-bearing orchard, a garden in bloom.
- She looked out and saw a flock of men crowded around the stage.
- The gate to the king's manor didn't stop swinging for a moment; they came in flocks and droves, from east and west, both riding and walking.
- Thereafter people came in flocks to carve caves to express their belief in the Buddhas.
Synonyms crowd, throng, horde, mob, rabble, large number, mass, multitude, host, army, pack, swarm, sea, stream, troupe, press, crush, flood, collection, company, gathering, assembly, assemblage informal gaggle British informal shower archaic rout - 1.3 A group of children or pupils in someone's charge.
（有人领着的）一群孩子（或中小学生） Example sentencesExamples - But Mr Mitchell believes his flock are taking a light-hearted approach to the West Yorkshire clash at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
- 1.4 A Christian congregation or body of believers, especially one under the charge of a particular minister.
（尤指属某牧师所管的）基督教会众 Thomas addressed his flock 托马斯向他的教众讲道。 Example sentencesExamples - A Newbold church is packing its pews with a new flock of Asian Christians thanks to the multi-lingual skills of the curate.
- What is the shape of ministry when the wolf is near your flock?
- In his first major address to his Christian flock, Pope Adrian launched a scathing attack on the Christian Church, which was rocked by scandals of all sorts.
- And bishops must now persuade their flocks, since they can no longer command adherence to church teachings.
- Their rabbi, a 34-year-old karate black belt, proudly estimates that nine out of ten of his flock don't believe in God.
- Fear of litigation, an admittedly necessary concern, trumped a bishop's duty to his priests and to his flock.
- He was made a bishop in 1677 and sent to Germany to minister to a small flock of Catholics.
- But that's not going to happen - even in this enlightened age, when groovy archbishops invite their flocks to regard the Resurrection through sceptical eyes.
- This army of shepherds was to guide and lead the flock of believers.
- If Sri Sri is in residence, he addresses his flock; when he's not in town, the congregation listens to tapes of him speaking.
- There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
- He should stick to ministering his own flock and keep his opinions to his pulpit and not to the public.
- ‘We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith,’ he said.
- In response, Muslim religious leaders began exhorting their flocks against violence.
- The tiny Christian flock has become ‘a great multitude that no one could number.’
- I could surrender everything to the Lord - my dear wife and children, my congregation as a dear flock, the seminary and its staff.
- An elder represents Christ as a Shepherd, teaching and caring for God's church, the flock God has put under his care.
- And he has urged his flock to contemplate their Christian response and ‘reflect with the eyes of faith on the big issues of the day.’
- This attribution is based on the similarities between the depiction of Christ and his flock and other designs that have been documented to Wilson.
- There is a review of the failures of Judah's leadership and the promise that God himself will take charge of the flock through the appointment of one to rule like David.
verb flɒkflɑk [no object]1(of birds) congregate in a flock. sandgrouse are liable to flock with other species Example sentencesExamples - It's no wonder that these birds flock to the banks of the canal that runs through the refuge.
- Elegant flamingos and other birds flock to Chilika in the winter.
- The tour also takes you to the Usteri Lake, where birds of all kinds flock.
- Golden-crowned Kinglets are fairly easy to see during the winter when they flock with other small birds and can occur in large numbers.
- He was the bird and the other birds flocking to the tree were the souls he would save by establishing a Church here.
- As the sun goes down, the birds flock together noisily then settle in for the night.
- At the moment the birds are beginning to flock, so it is a lucrative time to do it.
- An early and simple model was designed to explain how birds flock.
- Think about what you would like to look at out here: tulips, wisteria, song birds flocking to a birdbath?
- A cloud of birds flocks into the air, signifying the approach of someone or something.
- Birds flock, literally and figuratively, to these 40 acres of old forest and gentle pasture overlooking the mighty Hudson River.
- So the boys flock to her like birds flock to the French fries my grandfather throws at them on the beach.
- Birds flocked on the skies and flew around the Schelewig mansion in the new Lake Town.
- The theory is that, if enough birds flock, the B - 52s will be unable to fly because of the risk of strikes to their engines.
- They said that the increased numbers of birds which flocked around the pigs increased the risk of them flying into the engines of aircraft.
- Several species of birds flock to gather the fruit.
- The pomegranates are ripe now and the local ring-necked parrots are flocking to the tree.
- At certain times of the day, small birds flock to these branches, chattering and fluttering, as if this were a festive occasion.
- On the day, the thirsty birds would flock to the lake in greater numbers.
- The group spends much of the winter preparing the land for the summer when birds will flock to the reserve to breed.
- 1.1with adverbial Move or go together in a crowd.
成群结队前往，蜂拥而至 tourists flock to Oxford in their thousands 成千上万的旅游者涌向牛津。 Example sentencesExamples - After many years in the doldrums, cinema groups are reporting a massive increase in takings, as crowds flock back to the big screen.
- Instead, the jobless are flocking in ever-greater numbers across the border.
- Visitors flock there to see the lights gently altering on the facades of the 500-year-old buildings.
- In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude.
- More than 200,000 racegoers flocked to the city.
- Low paid workers, especially in schools, have flocked to join unions.
- But the dance crowd also flocks to more obscure events.
- On Easter Sunday, many flock to church sporting their Sunday best, celebrating Christ's resurrection.
- But the way I see it, too many people are flocking here for benefits.
- They flocked around, cheering and enthusing over his courage and wisdom.
- Sales fever gripped Salisbury as thousands of shoppers flocked to the city this week, to snap up post-Christmas bargains.
- As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue.
- They found a shop was selling them for £10 and teenagers were flocking to buy them.
- Soccer fans flock in their numbers to these confrontations and expect nothing less than yet another soccer spectacle.
- Employers will flock to hipper cities to attract this young labor force.
- Anytime they filmed in a public place, fans were sure to flock around them.
- However it will be some time before crowds flock back to the matches.
- Britons are certainly flocking to buy up corners of the world in increasing numbers.
- People flocked together, trying to stick their noses into the merchants' carts.
- They flocked around him, all wanting to get a better view, all the time.
Synonyms gather, collect, congregate, assemble, come together, get together, converge, convene, rally, rendezvous, muster, meet, mass, amass, crowd, throng, cluster, herd, group, bunch, swarm, huddle, mill rare foregather stream, go in large numbers, swarm, surge, seethe, spill, crowd, herd, troop
OriginOld English flocc, of unknown origin. The original sense was 'a band or body of people': this became obsolete, but has been reintroduced as a transferred use of the sense 'a number of animals kept together'. Rhymesad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok noun flɒkflɑk 1mass noun, often as modifier A soft material for stuffing cushions, quilts, and other soft furnishings, made of wool refuse or torn-up cloth. （填入垫、被和其他软陈设的）废毛，废棉 废毛（或棉）床垫。 Example sentencesExamples - In considering the diagnosis of flock worker's lung, the symptom profile is crucial in raising clinical suspicion.
- Those results are consistent with Schillaci's findings and support our flock composition results.
- Guillotine-cut flock may be dyed before it is bath-finished, dried, screened, and bagged.
- However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
- And that night with the keys hard beneath my thin flock pillow, I heard the voices clearly for the first time.
- All excess flock fibers are automatically collected and recycled back to the dispensing hopper.
- 1.1 Powdered wool or cloth, used in making flock wallpaper.
制作植绒墙纸的粉状毛（或布）屑 Example sentencesExamples - But the very existence of Michelin-starred Indian restaurants may signal the death knell of flock wall-paper, lager and an onion bhaji.
- The hall was decorated in green flock paper, and was furnished with a modern two layer bronze and teak tripod table.
- 1.2count noun A lock or tuft of wool or cotton.
毛束，棉束
Derivativesadjective ˈflɒkiˈflɑki The table linen was decorated with a pair of ostriches and their flocky babies resting in a green grassland.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French floc, from Latin floccus (see floccus). nounfläkflɑk 1A number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or traveling together. 鸟群 一群海鸥。 Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
- A flock of birds off in the distance scattered away.
- Adan clutched onto me and screamed, disturbing the flocks of birds resting in trees nearby.
- After that they may join a flock of other juvenile birds.
- When we say the gravel crackles under our feet, the sun has turned purple through the clouds, or a flock of birds is swooping overhead, all of it must be literally true.
- In late summer we checked for retained offspring among the first-year birds in flocks using behavior and DNA fingerprinting.
- A flock of birds surges impetuously from the thickets and takes flight towards the windmills that decorate the landscape.
- Members of bird flocks and fish shoals check for predators less often and spend less time hiding in shelters than do solitary individuals.
- They shot through the clouds and scared a flock of native birds.
- Thin clouds floated in the sky, and I could see a flock of birds passing by the clouds on a formation.
- A flock of birds took flight, startled by his voice.
- Possible Landscape begins with piercing tones that ring together like a flock of synthetic birds, each tuned to a single, unwavering note.
- After the trials, we put colored bands back on males and returned the birds to their flocks to maintain a standardized social setting for all other males prior to their trials.
- Anseriform birds often flock together outside the breeding season and may form groups ranging in size from a few individuals to many thousands.
- A flock of four birds is the most common size in Parus during winter.
- For most of us, a more familiar example is a flock of birds, all moving together as if under the direction of a leader or some central command.
- Like a flock of migrating birds, however, the mass changes formation.
- Birds in flocks so dense that they resembled smoke clouds: thousands of tree swallows, wave after wave of American robins.
- Further out to sea, a flock of gannets rested on the surface, digesting their meal.
- Early reports from the crew indicated they may have struck a flock of birds in flight.
Synonyms group, flight, congregation - 1.1 A number of domestic animals, especially sheep, goats, or geese, that are kept together.
家畜群，家禽群（尤指绵羊、山羊、鹅） 一群海鸥。 Example sentencesExamples - The group halted their horses at the gate as a flock of sheep went ambling past.
- The farm has a flock of 85 sheep but there are plans to build up the numbers by keeping some of the ewe lambs for breeding stock this year.
- So I can only empathise with farmers who have lost entire herds of cattle or flocks of sheep.
- Just about all the staff are very conservative, good church-going types - and I stick out like a purple goat in a flock of white-washed sheep.
- In normal times, the Moores work the farm in two separate units, producing winter oats and winter wheat as well as fattening 600 head of cattle and a flock of store sheep.
- There were a few camels and traditional black Bedouin tents here and there with large flocks of sheep and goats nearby.
- A local woman saw the animal, which she described as about five times the size of a domestic cat, among a flock of sheep.
- They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.
- Most of it is grazed by flocks of sheep, goats, camels and cattle, often causing severe damage to vegetation.
- If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
- Huge flocks of sheep and goats in the northwest are stripping the land of its protective vegetation, creating a dust bowl on a scale not seen before.
- Tall baked-mud walls enclose its fields and gardens, the trees twitch with little birds and shy women and girls tend flocks of sheep and goats.
- At midmorning we saw a flock of spotted goats being herded across the road, and saw down the meadow the man who drove them.
- Yohanna climbed the path over the mountain, and there at the crest in the middle of a flock of sheep and goats, stood Yusef and David, tending three donkeys laden with packs.
- There are lots of llama shows around the United States; they can be used as guardians to protect flocks of sheep, goats and other animals.
- When they beached the ships, they saw flocks of sheep and goats and they killed them for feasting.
- Their herds of cattle and flocks of sheep from New South Wales were eagerly bought by the early South Australian settlers.
- The area around Hawes and Leyburn became a temporary home to teams of men dedicated to culling whole cattle herds and sheep flocks.
- They also run a flock of early lambing sheep and a small suckler cow herd.
- There are the tents of nomads and flocks of sheep and goats with children and women in attendance.
- 1.2flocks Large crowds of people.
大群人 flocks of young people hung around at twilight 黄昏时成群结队的年轻人在闲荡。 Example sentencesExamples - She looked out and saw a flock of men crowded around the stage.
- Still, the flock of visitors, not just the Kuta crowd with its uniform of tie-dyes and beads, keeps coming back.
- Thereafter people came in flocks to carve caves to express their belief in the Buddhas.
- One year as she'd stepped off the plane to Cyprus, a whole flock of people had gathered around her.
- For she gathered around her a flock of virgins, a fruit-bearing orchard, a garden in bloom.
- The gate to the king's manor didn't stop swinging for a moment; they came in flocks and droves, from east and west, both riding and walking.
- I noticed a crowd was gathering, a flock of women in huddles whispering to each other on the outskirts of the crowd.
Synonyms crowd, throng, horde, mob, rabble, large number, mass, multitude, host, army, pack, swarm, sea, stream, troupe, press, crush, flood, collection, company, gathering, assembly, assemblage - 1.3 A group of children or students in someone's charge.
（有人领着的）一群孩子（或中小学生） Example sentencesExamples - But Mr Mitchell believes his flock are taking a light-hearted approach to the West Yorkshire clash at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
- 1.4 A Christian congregation or body of believers, especially one under the charge of a particular minister.
（尤指属某牧师所管的）基督教会众 Thomas addressed his flock 托马斯向他的教众讲道。 Example sentencesExamples - He was made a bishop in 1677 and sent to Germany to minister to a small flock of Catholics.
- In response, Muslim religious leaders began exhorting their flocks against violence.
- There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
- But that's not going to happen - even in this enlightened age, when groovy archbishops invite their flocks to regard the Resurrection through sceptical eyes.
- What is the shape of ministry when the wolf is near your flock?
- This attribution is based on the similarities between the depiction of Christ and his flock and other designs that have been documented to Wilson.
- A Newbold church is packing its pews with a new flock of Asian Christians thanks to the multi-lingual skills of the curate.
- The tiny Christian flock has become ‘a great multitude that no one could number.’
- In his first major address to his Christian flock, Pope Adrian launched a scathing attack on the Christian Church, which was rocked by scandals of all sorts.
- I could surrender everything to the Lord - my dear wife and children, my congregation as a dear flock, the seminary and its staff.
- He should stick to ministering his own flock and keep his opinions to his pulpit and not to the public.
- Their rabbi, a 34-year-old karate black belt, proudly estimates that nine out of ten of his flock don't believe in God.
- If Sri Sri is in residence, he addresses his flock; when he's not in town, the congregation listens to tapes of him speaking.
- And bishops must now persuade their flocks, since they can no longer command adherence to church teachings.
- Fear of litigation, an admittedly necessary concern, trumped a bishop's duty to his priests and to his flock.
- There is a review of the failures of Judah's leadership and the promise that God himself will take charge of the flock through the appointment of one to rule like David.
- ‘We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith,’ he said.
- This army of shepherds was to guide and lead the flock of believers.
- And he has urged his flock to contemplate their Christian response and ‘reflect with the eyes of faith on the big issues of the day.’
- An elder represents Christ as a Shepherd, teaching and caring for God's church, the flock God has put under his care.
verbfläkflɑk [no object]Congregate or mass in a flock or large group. 聚集成群，群集，聚集 students flocked to spring break sites Example sentencesExamples - At certain times of the day, small birds flock to these branches, chattering and fluttering, as if this were a festive occasion.
- The group spends much of the winter preparing the land for the summer when birds will flock to the reserve to breed.
- Think about what you would like to look at out here: tulips, wisteria, song birds flocking to a birdbath?
- He was the bird and the other birds flocking to the tree were the souls he would save by establishing a Church here.
- It's no wonder that these birds flock to the banks of the canal that runs through the refuge.
- Golden-crowned Kinglets are fairly easy to see during the winter when they flock with other small birds and can occur in large numbers.
- Several species of birds flock to gather the fruit.
- The pomegranates are ripe now and the local ring-necked parrots are flocking to the tree.
- At the moment the birds are beginning to flock, so it is a lucrative time to do it.
- As the sun goes down, the birds flock together noisily then settle in for the night.
- So the boys flock to her like birds flock to the French fries my grandfather throws at them on the beach.
- Birds flock, literally and figuratively, to these 40 acres of old forest and gentle pasture overlooking the mighty Hudson River.
- An early and simple model was designed to explain how birds flock.
- They said that the increased numbers of birds which flocked around the pigs increased the risk of them flying into the engines of aircraft.
- The theory is that, if enough birds flock, the B - 52s will be unable to fly because of the risk of strikes to their engines.
- Elegant flamingos and other birds flock to Chilika in the winter.
- The tour also takes you to the Usteri Lake, where birds of all kinds flock.
- Birds flocked on the skies and flew around the Schelewig mansion in the new Lake Town.
- A cloud of birds flocks into the air, signifying the approach of someone or something.
- On the day, the thirsty birds would flock to the lake in greater numbers.
OriginOld English flocc, of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a band or body of people’: this became obsolete, but has been reintroduced as a transferred use of the sense ‘a number of animals kept together’. nounfläkflɑk 1often as modifier A soft material for stuffing cushions, quilts, and other soft furnishings, made of wool refuse or torn-up cloth. （填入垫、被和其他软陈设的）废毛，废棉 废毛（或棉）床垫。 Example sentencesExamples - All excess flock fibers are automatically collected and recycled back to the dispensing hopper.
- However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
- In considering the diagnosis of flock worker's lung, the symptom profile is crucial in raising clinical suspicion.
- And that night with the keys hard beneath my thin flock pillow, I heard the voices clearly for the first time.
- Guillotine-cut flock may be dyed before it is bath-finished, dried, screened, and bagged.
- Those results are consistent with Schillaci's findings and support our flock composition results.
- 1.1 Powdered wool or cloth, sprinkled on wallpaper, cloth, or metal to make a raised pattern.
Example sentencesExamples - The hall was decorated in green flock paper, and was furnished with a modern two layer bronze and teak tripod table.
- But the very existence of Michelin-starred Indian restaurants may signal the death knell of flock wall-paper, lager and an onion bhaji.
- 1.2 A lock or tuft of wool or cotton.
毛束，棉束
OriginMiddle English: from Old French floc, from Latin floccus (see floccus). |