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单词 gull
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gull1

noun ɡʌlɡəl
  • A long-winged web-footed seabird with a raucous call, typically having white plumage with a grey or black mantle.

    Family Laridae: several genera, in particular Larus, and numerous species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Northern Fulmar varies in color from mostly white, to gray and white like many gulls, to an overall gray-brown, with every possible shade in between.
    • Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle.
    • Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more.
    • Carrion crows, large gulls, hawks and herons all receive severe punishment.
    • This change might affect the migration and reproductive ecology of the ivory gull and other seabirds in the High Arctic.
    • In some ways, there are breeds of gull and sea bird who are light years ahead of us on the long-term commitment front and don't seem to have the same issues that we do.
    • Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
    • The Thayer's Gull is a large gull, with typical gull-like plumage.
    • This gull has a slate-gray back, a white belly and tail, and black wingtips.
    • The body coloration is typical of gull plumage from above, but both breeding and non-breeding adults have dark underwings with pale wingtips, which are distinctive in flight.
    • It is particularly known for its diversity of gulls and sea ducks.
    • Besides a few gulls and black ducks, we had the place to ourselves.
    • This gull has narrow wings, a slender, black, pin-like bill, and pink legs.
    • The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
    • Seabirds such as gulls and terns, even pelicans, can point the way to ‘sure thing’ action when the excited flocks are low and tight, dipping and circling.
    • A variety of birds make their homes around the harbour including yellow eyed and blue penguins, black back gulls, and five types of cormorants.
    • It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins.
    • For some seabirds, predation by gulls on host eggs or chicks may impose a more significant limitation on reproductive success and that has resulted in culling programs at several seabird colonies.
    • A pelagic gull, this kittiwake spends most of the year at sea.
    • I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other species we spotted yesterday.

Origin

Late Middle English: of Celtic origin; related to Welsh gwylan and Breton gwelan.

Rhymes

annul, cull, dull, hull, lull, mull, null, scull, skull, Solihull, trull, Tull

gull2

verb ɡʌlɡəl
[with object]
  • Fool or deceive (someone)

    哄骗,欺骗

    he had been gulled into believing that the documents were authentic
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There will be so few jobs available that many foolish young men and women will be gulled into becoming their own families' jailers and murderers.
    • They have gulled municipalities around the world into letting them stage their pranks, and the result is celebrity and riches.
    • The people have been lulled and gulled into complacency.
    • He offers a timely reminder that we should not be gulled into believing that everything done against ‘terrorism’ is done for humanity.
    • Americans too easily let themselves be gulled by the preachments of their leaders in wartime.
    • It is so easy to be seduced by the ephemeral polls and gulled by endorsements and fund-raising statistics.
    • If racists decide to, say, murder an Asian man in Nottingham, they were gulled into it by ‘constant and violent imprecations against the British government’.
    • Practitioners of this technique have before my eyes gulled bosses into taking the opportunity of an annual performance review to offer them a raise and their daughter's virtue.
    • They are gulled by the oldest trick of all, the one that gets the victim to look somewhere else.
    • The release of 50-year-old secret papers detailing the way they were gulled into taking part in nuclear and biological warfare tests has, if anything, aggravated resentment over the non-issue of a national service medal.
    • The defense is for us all, but scientists in particular, to be aware of what's going on and not be gulled by the claims to greater efficiency made by private enterprise, which on close examination usually come down to presentation.
    • Obviously, it appeared to him, they were all fools here and would be easily gulled.
    • He wants us to believe that we have been gulled into seeing the rebirth of Scottish painting as something more than it really was.
    • That's because the man that gulled him has a very, very long line of creditors.
    • In this case, the public, if not the sponsors, have been gulled.
    • To understand ground rents and land prices is to understand cities; not to understand is to remain mired forever in confusion and fallacy, to be gulled and misled and bamboozled, which is, indeed and alas, the common lot of mankind.
    • People do not like to admit that they have been gulled or conned, so a vested interest in the myth was permitted to arise, and a lazy media never bothered to ask any follow-up questions.
    • Maori have been gulled into being part of the process by which busybodies and newly-minted planners impose their ideas of how property should be used, on the people who actually wear the costs.
    • They confide in each other, they mutually admire, bitch, dish the dirt and reminisce in such a delightful way that the audience is gulled into believing this is a comedy of manners, albeit manners of New Yorkers.
    • Unlike many writers in this field, Kunstler is never gulled into praising projects and programs that have good intentions but dubious results.
    Synonyms
    swindle, defraud, cheat, trick, hoodwink, hoax, dupe, take in, mislead, delude, fool, outwit, misguide, lead on, inveigle, seduce, ensnare, entrap, beguile, double-cross
    hoodwink, hoax, dupe, deceive, trick, fool, make a fool of, mislead, take in, delude, misguide
noun ɡʌlɡəl
  • A person who is fooled or deceived.

    傻子,呆子,受骗者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The title of this piece might seem to be no more than a comment on the ease with which the flats, mugs, suckers, punters, marks, gulls, or coneys could be relieved of their money.
    • Dauphine echoes the initial warning of the second prologue in describing the ways in which the gulls are duped.
    Synonyms
    dupe, victim, pawn, puppet, instrument

Origin

Late 16th century: of unknown origin.

gull1

nounɡəlɡəl
  • A long-winged web-footed seabird with a raucous call, typically having white plumage with a gray or black mantle.

    Family Laridae: several genera, in particular Larus, and numerous species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Carrion crows, large gulls, hawks and herons all receive severe punishment.
    • It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins.
    • I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other species we spotted yesterday.
    • This change might affect the migration and reproductive ecology of the ivory gull and other seabirds in the High Arctic.
    • Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle.
    • Besides a few gulls and black ducks, we had the place to ourselves.
    • The Thayer's Gull is a large gull, with typical gull-like plumage.
    • The body coloration is typical of gull plumage from above, but both breeding and non-breeding adults have dark underwings with pale wingtips, which are distinctive in flight.
    • Seabirds such as gulls and terns, even pelicans, can point the way to ‘sure thing’ action when the excited flocks are low and tight, dipping and circling.
    • Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more.
    • The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
    • A pelagic gull, this kittiwake spends most of the year at sea.
    • The Northern Fulmar varies in color from mostly white, to gray and white like many gulls, to an overall gray-brown, with every possible shade in between.
    • This gull has narrow wings, a slender, black, pin-like bill, and pink legs.
    • Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
    • In some ways, there are breeds of gull and sea bird who are light years ahead of us on the long-term commitment front and don't seem to have the same issues that we do.
    • For some seabirds, predation by gulls on host eggs or chicks may impose a more significant limitation on reproductive success and that has resulted in culling programs at several seabird colonies.
    • It is particularly known for its diversity of gulls and sea ducks.
    • This gull has a slate-gray back, a white belly and tail, and black wingtips.
    • A variety of birds make their homes around the harbour including yellow eyed and blue penguins, black back gulls, and five types of cormorants.

Origin

Late Middle English: of Celtic origin; related to Welsh gwylan and Breton gwelan.

gull2

verbɡəlɡəl
[with object]
  • Fool or deceive (someone)

    哄骗,欺骗

    workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves

    英国的工人受到欺骗而使自己遭受贫困和剥削。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The defense is for us all, but scientists in particular, to be aware of what's going on and not be gulled by the claims to greater efficiency made by private enterprise, which on close examination usually come down to presentation.
    • People do not like to admit that they have been gulled or conned, so a vested interest in the myth was permitted to arise, and a lazy media never bothered to ask any follow-up questions.
    • He wants us to believe that we have been gulled into seeing the rebirth of Scottish painting as something more than it really was.
    • Americans too easily let themselves be gulled by the preachments of their leaders in wartime.
    • The people have been lulled and gulled into complacency.
    • The release of 50-year-old secret papers detailing the way they were gulled into taking part in nuclear and biological warfare tests has, if anything, aggravated resentment over the non-issue of a national service medal.
    • They confide in each other, they mutually admire, bitch, dish the dirt and reminisce in such a delightful way that the audience is gulled into believing this is a comedy of manners, albeit manners of New Yorkers.
    • Unlike many writers in this field, Kunstler is never gulled into praising projects and programs that have good intentions but dubious results.
    • In this case, the public, if not the sponsors, have been gulled.
    • There will be so few jobs available that many foolish young men and women will be gulled into becoming their own families' jailers and murderers.
    • They are gulled by the oldest trick of all, the one that gets the victim to look somewhere else.
    • If racists decide to, say, murder an Asian man in Nottingham, they were gulled into it by ‘constant and violent imprecations against the British government’.
    • Maori have been gulled into being part of the process by which busybodies and newly-minted planners impose their ideas of how property should be used, on the people who actually wear the costs.
    • That's because the man that gulled him has a very, very long line of creditors.
    • Practitioners of this technique have before my eyes gulled bosses into taking the opportunity of an annual performance review to offer them a raise and their daughter's virtue.
    • To understand ground rents and land prices is to understand cities; not to understand is to remain mired forever in confusion and fallacy, to be gulled and misled and bamboozled, which is, indeed and alas, the common lot of mankind.
    • Obviously, it appeared to him, they were all fools here and would be easily gulled.
    • He offers a timely reminder that we should not be gulled into believing that everything done against ‘terrorism’ is done for humanity.
    • They have gulled municipalities around the world into letting them stage their pranks, and the result is celebrity and riches.
    • It is so easy to be seduced by the ephemeral polls and gulled by endorsements and fund-raising statistics.
    Synonyms
    swindle, defraud, cheat, trick, hoodwink, hoax, dupe, take in, mislead, delude, fool, outwit, misguide, lead on, inveigle, seduce, ensnare, entrap, beguile, double-cross
    hoodwink, hoax, dupe, deceive, trick, fool, make a fool of, mislead, take in, delude, misguide
nounɡəlɡəl
  • A person who is fooled or deceived.

    傻子,呆子,受骗者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The title of this piece might seem to be no more than a comment on the ease with which the flats, mugs, suckers, punters, marks, gulls, or coneys could be relieved of their money.
    • Dauphine echoes the initial warning of the second prologue in describing the ways in which the gulls are duped.
    Synonyms
    dupe, victim, pawn, puppet, instrument

Origin

Late 16th century: of unknown origin.

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