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larker

/lahrk/US // lɑrk //UK // (lɑːk) //

百灵鸟,云雀,百乐门,云雀座

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of numerous, chiefly Old World oscine birds, of the family Alaudidae, characterized by an unusually long, straight hind claw, especially the skylark, Alauda arvensis.
    • : any of various similar birds of other families, as the meadowlark and titlark.

Phrases

  • lark it up
  • happy as the day is long (as a lark)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • What began as a lark turned into Noah Basketball, named not-so-subtly for the biblical Noah’s ark story.

  • Having a quest is an excellent way to travel, even if it’s just a lark.

  • There are many other reasons why couples are increasingly choosing to sleep apart, including differences in sleep-wake schedules—she’s a lark, he’s an owl, differences in work schedules, and children, to name a few.

  • It was all just a lark, a prank pulled by Jones to pass the stagnant time.

  • Topher Grace, a varsity tennis player, got hurt, decided to do a school play on a lark and BAM!

  • Free Crimea, we ultimately discover, is the work of a drunken Brit on a lark.

  • But what started as a lark became a professional passion for Holland.

  • The idea was conceived by a food scientist at Brigham Young University, who added dry ice to the cultured dairy on a lark.

  • Like so many young girls, she tried modeling as a lark, a way of escaping the humdrum and finding glamour.

  • Mercury on a lark in your opposite sign calls for expressions that run counter to the woulda-shoulda-coulda loop in your mind.

  • Hence Shakespeare speaks of 'the lark, that tirra-lyra chants,' Wint.

  • High overhead a lark was pouring out its song; in the lane at the orchard end rang the beat of trotting hoofs.

  • Or how is it that grass grows in the fields, and the lark sings in the sky, and the trees lose their leaves in winter?

  • He was as gay as a lark, humming an Oppra tune, and twizzting round his head his hevy gold-headed cane.

  • Up we marched to our apartmince, me carrying the light and the cloax, master hummink a hair out of the oppra, as merry as a lark.