crow

英 [krəʊ] 美 [kroʊ]

• n. 乌鸦；啼叫；欢叫
• v. 报晓；啼叫；欢叫；夸口；洋洋自得

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]乌鸦

   a large shiny black bird with a loud cry

2. [C]雄鸡的啼声

   the cry of a cock

v. (动词)

1. vi. 公鸡啼鸣

   make the cry of a cock

2. vi. (婴儿)欢叫

   (of a baby) make sounds showing pleasure

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 鸦，乌鸦
2. 欢叫声，欢呼声，儿童欢闹声
3. 【天】乌鸦座
4. 撬杆，撬棍
5. 鸡叫声，啼叫声，报晓声，喔喔叫声
6. 美国克罗族印第安人
7. 克罗语

v. 动词

1. 欢叫；欢呼；欢笑
2. 报晓，啼叫，叫，鸣
3. 发格格声
4. 幸灾乐祸
5. 得意洋洋，洋洋自得地夸口，吹嘘

adj. 形容词

1. 克罗人的或克罗语的

英英释义

Noun:

1. black birds having a raucous call

2. the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)

3. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

4. a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo

5. an instance of boastful talk;

   "his brag is worse than his fight"
   "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
   

6. a Siouan language spoken by the Crow

Verb:

1. dwell on with satisfaction

2. express pleasure verbally;

   "She crowed with joy"
   

3. utter shrill sounds;

   "The cocks crowed all morning"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The crow is a bird of ill omen.
   乌鸦是不祥的预兆。
2. He gets up at the crow of the rooster every day.
   他每天鸡鸣即起。

用作动词 (v.)

1. It was dawn, and I could hear a cock crowing somewhere.
   天亮了,我听到从某处传来雄鸡的报晓声。
2. The rooster flew up to a big rock and began to crow.
   公鸡飞上大石头,开始鸣叫。
3. He is the kind of person who always crows about his success.
   他是那种总是夸耀自己成功的人。
4. You should not crow over a defeated enemy.
   你不应该在被你击败的敌手面前洋洋得意。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The farmers tried to fear the crows out of corn by planting several men of straw.
   农民们竖起了几个稻草人,试图把乌鸦从玉米地里吓跑。
2. The rooster's crow woke me.
   雄鸡的啼叫声把我吵醒了。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The cock is crowing.
   这只公鸡正在啼鸣。
2. The cock crows in the farmyard.
   雄鸡在农家院中啼叫。
3. The baby crowed with pleasure when its father picked it up.
   那婴儿的父亲把他抱起来的时候，他乐得格格地笑。

经典引文

• A public accusation might make him crow and show off what a tough guy he was.

  出自： A. S. Neill

• Nor is there any reason to crow about things going wrong.

  出自： Clive James

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

介词+～

• as the crow flies 笔直的

词义辨析

boast，brag，crow，pride

• 这些动词均含有“自夸，吹嘘”之意。
• boast普通用词，指对自己所做的事，自己的长处、财富以及家庭等的夸耀，常含言过其实的意味。
• brag非正式用词，其夸耀和吹嘘意味强于boast，到了过分夸大，有时令人讨厌的地步。
• crow多指大声吵嚷地吹嘘，夸耀自己做某事比他人做得好。
• pride与boast的意义较接近，指炫耀、夸口，自鸣得意，常与反身代词连用。

近反义词

【近义词】

• boast 自夸
• brag 吹牛
• gloat 满足地看
• caw (乌鸦等)呱呱地叫...
• show off 炫耀
• swagger 大摇大摆地走...
• cry 哭
• call 呼叫
• squawk 叫声
• screech 尖叫
• blow your own horn 自吹自擂(自我标榜)...
• swank 炫耀
• blow your own trumpet 自吹自擂(自我标榜)...
• gasconade 吹牛
• cock-a-doodle-doo -doos (公鸡的)喔...
• cackle 咯咯叫声
• cluck 发咯咯声
• trumpet 喇叭
• exult 欢欣鼓舞
• glory in 自豪因(为 ... 而...
• strut 高视阔步
• parade 游行
• flaunt 挥动
• bluff 虚张声势
• puff 喷出
• bluster 咆哮
• vaunt 吹嘘
• vaporing 大话
• line-shooting 吹牛
• Corvus 乌鸦座
• bragging 吹牛
• crowing 动词crow的现在进行式...
• triumph 凯旋
• pride 骄傲