英语词汇“wide awake fair”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wide awake fair n. (originally) a breeding colony of wideawakes (sense B. 1); (in later use also) any of several breeding grounds on Ascension Island occupied by a large breeding colony of wideawakes.

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1848 W. Allen & T. R. H. Thomson Narr. Exped. River Niger II. 175 The little colony of hack-backed sterns (Sterna fuliginosa) is called ‘wide-awake fair’.

1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 1039 These crowd at certain seasons in innumerable multitude to certain suitable islands, where they breed, and the wonderful assemblage at present known as ‘Wide-awake fair’ on the island of Ascension has been..described from very ancient times.

1967 Observer 26 Feb. 13/8 One can visit the Wideawake Fairs—breeding grounds of thousands of Wideawake terns, who lay an egg each on the bare lava.

1991 J. Hay Bird of Light ii. 31 Another famous colony of sooty terns, on Ascension Island in the mid-south Atlantic, is called Wideawake Fair because of the constant clamor of its population, night and day.

2015 S. Britt-Gallagher & T. Hayne St Helena (ed. 3) 126 Large numbers of the sooty tern or ‘wideawake’ (Onychoprion fuscata) settle on the Widewake Fairs, on the southwest coast, to hatch their eggs.

单词	wide awake fair
释义	> as lemmas wide awake fair wide awake fair n. (originally) a breeding colony of wideawakes (sense B. 1); (in later use also) any of several breeding grounds on Ascension Island occupied by a large breeding colony of wideawakes. ΚΠ 1848 W. Allen & T. R. H. Thomson Narr. Exped. River Niger II. 175 The little colony of hack-backed sterns (Sterna fuliginosa) is called ‘wide-awake fair’. 1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 1039 These crowd at certain seasons in innumerable multitude to certain suitable islands, where they breed, and the wonderful assemblage at present known as ‘Wide-awake fair’ on the island of Ascension has been..described from very ancient times. 1967 Observer 26 Feb. 13/8 One can visit the Wideawake Fairs—breeding grounds of thousands of Wideawake terns, who lay an egg each on the bare lava. 1991 J. Hay Bird of Light ii. 31 Another famous colony of sooty terns, on Ascension Island in the mid-south Atlantic, is called Wideawake Fair because of the constant clamor of its population, night and day. 2015 S. Britt-Gallagher & T. Hayne St Helena (ed. 3) 126 Large numbers of the sooty tern or ‘wideawake’ (Onychoprion fuscata) settle on the Widewake Fairs, on the southwest coast, to hatch their eggs. extracted from wide awakeadj.n. < as lemmas
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