catbird / ˈkætˌbɜrd /
📖毕业后词汇猫咪猫头鹰猫咪宝贝
catbird 的定义
n. 名词 noun- any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis, of North America.
更多catbird例句
- “Putin's aim is to show that he is in the catbird seat, and there is nothing we can do about it,” this former officer said.
- You might have thought that with Borders shutting down, Barnes and Noble would be sitting in the catbird seat.
- There's no question that Republicans are sitting in the catbird's seat.
- He never has those fine intervals of lunacy into which his cousins, the catbird and the mavis, are apt to fall.
- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!
- Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
- All its habits are similar to our Catbird, and like that species, it is given to imitating the notes of other birds.
- A Catbird hopped lightly in the shadow of the tool-house, and I suspect some Robins of foraging turn with their young families.