释义 |
Examples:lit. chicken speaking with duck—hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur)—wigeon (Anas penelope, a Eurasian duck)—Groucho Marx (the star of Duck Soup, 1933)—a kind of water bird resembling a mandarin duck—a kind of water bird resembling a duck—duck (Anas platyrhyncha)—Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout—pressed (dried) salted duck—lit. drive a duck onto a perch [idiom.]—aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck [idiom.]—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—enclosure, dike, embankment—Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008—An ant hole causing the collapse of a great dike.—join of segments complete a project (dam, bridge, dike etc)—lit. sparrow and swallow, crow and magpie; fig. any Tom, Dick or Harry—mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)— |