woodpecker

英 [ˈwʊdpekə(r)]

美 [ˈwʊdpekər]

n.  啄木鸟

复数：woodpeckers　

CET6

BNC.24508 / COCA.16605

牛津词典

noun

• 啄木鸟
  a bird with a long beak that it uses to make holes in trees when it is looking for insects to eat

柯林斯词典

• 啄木鸟
  Awoodpeckeris a type of bird with a long sharp beak. Woodpeckers use their beaks to make holes in tree trunks.

英英释义

noun

• bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
  Synonym:peckerwoodpecker

双语例句

• It was the only place left with all nine European woodpecker species, because, he realized, some of them only nest in hollow, dying trees.
  这里是唯一生活着全部九种欧洲啄木鸟的地方。他于是意识到，有些啄木鸟的品种只栖身于中空的、濒临死亡的树木中。
• As most careers are at best only medium-successful, the trick is not to make like a woodpecker.
  由于大多数职业最多只能算一般成功，因此，我们就不要学习啄木鸟。
• The woodpecker flied for a long, long distance, and finally, she reached the city the girl lived in at last.
  啄木鸟飞了很远很远的路程，最后终于到了女孩所在的城市。
• If I walk through a forest in Georgia, where I live, and fail to see or hear the pileated woodpecker, am I permitted to conclude that the bird is absent?
  假如我在我所居住的佐治亚州穿过某个树林时没有看到北美黑啄木鸟或听到它的声音，我是不是就可以说这种鸟不存在呢？
• As I search for them, I see a downy woodpecker spiraling up a birch tree, its blaze of reds as sharp as a tongue of flame.
  我四处查看，发现了一支身披厚厚羽毛的啄木鸟正沿着白桦树盘旋上升，它那鲜红的色彩宛如跳跃的火焰。
• Black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck.
  红头红颈的黑白色北美洲啄木鸟。
• Small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees.
  以苹果树和枫树等树木的树汁为食的美洲小啄木鸟。
• The last undisputed report of an ivory-billed woodpecker in continental North America was in Louisiana in1944.
  学术界最后一次对一只北美大陆象牙喙啄木鸟发布的广为认同的报告是在1944年的路易斯安那州。
• But they are not enough to stand on the trees. A woodpecker needs help from its tail.
  它在树上自由攀登可不能没有这个神奇的尾巴。
• Woodpecker of Europe and western Asia.
  产于欧洲和亚洲东部的啄木鸟。