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goshawk

/gos-hawk/US // ˈgɒsˌhɔk //UK // (ˈɡɒsˌhɔːk) //

苍鹰,苍鹰号,大鹰,苍鹭

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several powerful, short-winged hawks, as Accipiter gentilis, of Europe and America, formerly much used in falconry.

Examples

  • The goshawk blinked and peered more close into the tired face of his master.

  • Wide she opened her lattice window and, leaning out, she hearkened to the song of the gay goshawk.

  • A little nearer flew the gay goshawk, and first his song was merry as a summer morn, and then it was sad as an autumn eve.

  • And as a token of my love I send you by your gay goshawk a ring from off my finger, a wreath from off my yellow hair.

  • Have just seen a Goshawk, apparently in young plumage, flying west at a height of perhaps sixty or seventy yards from the ground.