puffin
英 ['pʌfɪn]
美['pʌfɪn]
- n. 善知鸟；海鹦；海鸭之类
英英释义
- 1. any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
实用场景例句
- The Hatfield Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Mr. John Wimpenny , is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.
- 哈特费尔德·普芬是一架时髦的飞机, 但设计这架飞机的人约翰·温佩尼先生感到很难使它飞离地面.
《用法词典》
- N Pacific puffin having a large yellow plume over each eye.
- 北太平洋的海鹦,每只眼睛上方有一簇黄色的羽毛.
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中文词源
puffin 海鹦
可能来自puff,吹气，-in,小词后缀。因这种鸟圆鼓鼓的身体而得名。
双语例句
- 1. The Hatfield Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Mr. John Wimpenny , is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.
- 哈特费尔德·普芬是一架时髦的飞机, 但设计这架飞机的人约翰·温佩尼先生感到很难使它飞离地面.
来自《用法词典》
- 2. N Pacific puffin having a large yellow plume over each eye.
- 北太平洋的海鹦,每只眼睛上方有一簇黄色的羽毛.
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英文词源
- puffin
- puffin: [14] Puffin probably goes back to one of the ancestral Celtic languages of the British Isles – perhaps Cornish. Its English guise is no doubt due to its plump appearance, which suggested associations with puff [13] (a word which originated as an imitation of the sound of puffing).
- puffin (n.)
- North Atlantic seabird, mid-14c., perhaps connected with puff on notion of appearance, or from some Celtic word (earliest association is with Cornwall and Scilly), and altered by influence of puff.
词态变化
复数: puffins;