catbird / ˈkætˌbɜrd /

📖毕业后词汇猫咪猫头鹰猫咪宝贝

catbird 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis, of North America.

更多catbird例句

  1. “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.
  2. You might have thought that with Borders shutting down, Barnes and Noble would be sitting in the catbird seat.
  3. There's no question that Republicans are sitting in the catbird's seat.
  4. He never has those fine intervals of lunacy into which his cousins, the catbird and the mavis, are apt to fall.
  5. There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!
  6. Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
  7. All its habits are similar to our Catbird, and like that species, it is given to imitating the notes of other birds.
  8. A Catbird hopped lightly in the shadow of the tool-house, and I suspect some Robins of foraging turn with their young families.