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white-eye

/hwahyt-ahy, wahyt-/US // ˈʰwaɪtˌaɪ, ˈwaɪt- //

白眼狼,白眼,白眼儿,白眼珠

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural white-eyes.

    • : any of numerous small, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Zosteropidae, most of which have a ring of white feathers around the eye: several species are endangered.

Examples

  • The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

  • If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

  • There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.

  • The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.

  • But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.

  • And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.

  • But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

  • None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.

  • One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.

  • As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.