scarecrow
scarecrow 英 ['skeəkrəʊ] 美
n. 稻草人，威吓物；衣衫褴褛的人
名词复数:scarecrows
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- n. 稻草人，威吓物；衣衫褴褛的人
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1. In rural Maine, a disgruntled neighbor murders his enemy and turns him into a scarecrow, leaving him “drying—slowly, slowly in the wind.
缅因州乡村里，一个心有愤恨的邻居杀死了敌人将其竖立在田间做成了稻草人，让他“在风中干瘪下去——慢慢地，慢慢地”。
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2. Finally free of his father and of Motown, and working closely with Quincy Jones, whom he had met while playing the scarecrow in the 1978 film The Wiz, his commercial-pop genius was realised.
后来，迈克尔·杰克逊离开了父亲和摩城，开始同自己1978年在《新绿野仙踪》里扮演稻草人时结识的昆西·琼斯密切合作，此时，他的商业流行乐天赋终于被挖掘出来。
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3. In Paraguay, people create an effigy and dress him up like a scarecrow when the new year comes.
每逢新年来临，巴拉圭人都会专门制作雕像，然后把雕像打扮成稻草人的样子。
- scarecrow (n.) 1550s, from scare (v.) + crow (n.). Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds. Meaning "device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows," is implied by 1580s; hence "gaunt, ridiculous person" (1590s). An older name for such a thing was shewel. Shoy-hoy apparently is another old word for a straw-stuffed scarecrow (Cobbett began using it as a political insult in 1819 and others picked it up; OED defines it as "one who scares away birds from a sown field," and says it is imitative of their cry). Also fray-boggard (1530s).
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