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eyrie

/air-ee, eer-ee/US // ˈɛər i, ˈɪər i //UK // (ˈɪərɪ, ˈɛərɪ, ˈaɪərɪ) //

鹰嘴兽,鹰巢,鹰嘴兽场,鹰眼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural eyr·ies.

    • : aerie.

Examples

  • Striving to be evocatively mysterious, Eyrie is in the end merely mystifying.

  • Of course Lysa summoned Sansa to the Eyrie immediately thereafter.

  • The air is growing thick with gloom round your mountain eyrie.

  • All one bright wintry day we marched down from our eyrie; all one bright wintry night we climbed the great wooded ridge opposite.

  • In each case the eyrie was a flat platform of sticks about twice the size of a kite's nest.

  • The ground beneath the eyrie was littered with fowls' feathers and pellets of skin, fur and bone.

  • From the eyrie of the salient one can look over it and away to the north to big rolling chalk land, most of it wooded.