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crow-pheasant

/kroh-fez-uhnt/US // ˈkroʊˌfɛz ənt //

乌鸡

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.

Examples

  • It is the first time Charles has been pictured with a gun on a pheasant shoot since December 2008.

  • This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.

  • Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.

  • Each working in its own way was essential to ending Jim Crow in the South.

  • Slowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South.

  • Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.

  • The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.

  • And he quite agreed with old Mr. Crow, who had come hurrying up to see what was going on.

  • Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.

  • Farmer Green's cat had never liked Mr. Crow, for no particular reason.