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单词 caw
释义

caw

/kɔː /
noun
The harsh cry of a rook, crow, or similar bird.Instead I was met with the harsh caw of a crow, breaking the eerie silence....
  • The crow's caw is much more harsh and resonant than that of the rook.
  • The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
verb [no object]
Utter a caw: rooks cawed in the dark trees...
  • Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables.
  • But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.
  • Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms.

Origin

Late 16th century: imitative.

Rhymes

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