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单词 rabbit burrow
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rabbit burrow in British English

(ˈræbɪt ˈbʌrəʊ)
noun
another name for rabbit hole (sense 1)
 

rabbit hole in British English

noun
1.  Also: rabbit burrow
a hole in the ground dug by wild rabbits and leading to a warren
2.  informal
a surreal or bewildering situation
3.  informal
a series of linked pages on the internet that create a prolonged distraction from one's work or business
Word origin
senses 2 and 3 alluding to the hole down which the heroine falls in Lewis Carroll'sAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Examples of 'rabbit burrow' in a sentence
rabbit burrow

On the way, he stumbled over the rabbit burrow.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1930)
Shelduck are nesting beside the mudflats of estuaries, sometimes in a hollow in a sand dune, sometimes under a hedge, often in a rabbit burrow.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
You can film in the dark; you can film down rabbit burrows.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In treeless places it sometimes nests in rabbit burrows.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
They have even been found nesting in rabbits' burrows.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is the march of the shelduck families from their rabbit burrows to the sea.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They nest mainly in rabbit burrows in sand dunes, but also in such places as crevices under a beach hut.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In the hills they will nest in holes in stone walls and old rabbit burrows.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
But most of them will fly on to rocky hillsides further north and west, where they will nest in stone walls and rabbit burrows.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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