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babbler

/bab-ler/US // ˈbæb lər //UK // (ˈbæblə) //

咿呀学语者,咿呀学语,咿呀学语的人,咿呀学语的孩子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that babbles.
    • : any of the birds of the family Timaliidae, many of which have a loud, babbling cry.

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Examples

  • The bats may not babble exactly like other known babblers, says Pralle Kriengwatana, a behavioral biologist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland who wasn’t involved in the study.

  • Like humans and other babblers, the behavior started early in development, a little over two weeks after the bats’ birth.

  • Figuratively the term is used to designate an empty babbler.

  • Pisistratus could not feel flattered by passages intended to exhibit his ancestor as a conceited and inopportune old babbler.

  • The eggs of this cuckoo are blue, but are distinguishable from those of the babbler by their larger size.

  • When it sees a babbler approaching with food, the cuckoo cries out and flaps its wings vigorously.

  • Our Yankee, like the Roman babbler, had abundance of time to discourse on fifty different subjects.