partridge
partridge 英 ['pɑːtrɪdʒ] 美 ['pɑrtrɪdʒ]
n. [鸟] 鹧鸪；松鸡
名词复数:partridges
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- n. [鸟] 鹧鸪；松鸡
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1. The king of Israel has come out to look for a flea--as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.
以色列王出来是寻找一个虼蚤，如同人在山上猎取一个鹧鸪一般。
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2. A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threatingly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
一只身后随着十只雏鸟的雌鹧鸪，确曾冲上前来威吓她，但很快就后悔那么凶，还咯咯叫着她的孩子不必害怕。
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3. He was too busy with cricket, partridge shooting and setting up Pakistan's only specialist cancer hospital.
彼时他正忙于打板球、射鹧鸪和筹建巴基斯坦唯一的癌症专科医院，无暇顾及其他。
- partridge (n.) late 12c., from Old French pertis, alteration of perdis (perhaps influenced by fem. suffix -tris), from Latin perdicem (nominative perdix) "plover, lapwing," from Greek perdix, the Greek partridge, probably related to perdesthai "to break wind," in reference to the whirring noise of the bird's wings, from PIE imitative base *perd- "to break wind" (source also of Sanskrit pardate "breaks wind," Lithuanian perdžiu, persti, Russian perdet, Old High German ferzan, Old Norse freta, Middle English farten).
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