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thrasher

/thrash-er/US // ˈθræʃ ər //UK // (ˈθræʃə) //

刺激者,鲛人,激动人心的人,惊恐者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that thrashes.
    • : any of several long-tailed, thrushlike birds, especially of the genus Toxostoma, related to the mockingbirds.Compare brown thrasher.
    • : thresher.

Examples

  • “You might want to come over and look at this,” his wife, Pat Thrasher, suddenly called out.

  • Steven W. Thrasher was named Journalist of the Year 2012 by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

  • He slouches in his tall frame, wears a Thrasher T shirt to an interview and on this particular morning has sticky-looking hair.

  • Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds,—the chewink and the brown thrasher.

  • It proved to be written in cipher, but Mr. Thrasher declared himself ignorant alike of its contents and its author.

  • Taken as a whole I think that the song of this Thrasher is the most musical and pleasing of any that I have ever heard.

  • I hear the notes of a Thrasher in those bushes, and the Red-winged Blackbirds are calling all through the marsh meadow.

  • There is the big brown bird that you call a Thrasher, with his striped breast and long tail that spreads like a fan.