chiffchaff
/chif-chaf, -chahf/US // ˈtʃɪfˌtʃæf, -ˌtʃɑf //UK // (ˈtʃɪfˌtʃæf) //
芝华士,芝罘区,芝华仕,芝罘区政府
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a common, greenish Old World warbler, Phylloscopus collybita.
Examples
Only a very few days since—it does not seem a week—there was a chiffchaff calling in a copse as merrily as in the spring.
The first swallow they looked for, and never missed; but they neither heard nor saw the chiffchaff.
In the north of England, as it is in the south, the Chiffchaff is perhaps the most constant pioneer of the spring migrants.
Lastly, we have the Chiffchaff, certainly the rarest and most local of all.
The chiffchaff uttered his clear yet rather sad notes on April 26.
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