woodpecker
英 [ˈwʊdpekə(r)]
美 [ˈwʊdpekər]
n. 啄木鸟
复数：woodpeckers
BNC.24508 / COCA.16605
牛津词典
noun
- 啄木鸟
a bird with a long beak that it uses to make holes in trees when it is looking for insects to eat
柯林斯词典
- 啄木鸟
Awoodpeckeris a type of bird with a long sharp beak. Woodpeckers use their beaks to make holes in tree trunks.
英英释义
noun
- bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
双语例句
- John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and one of the leading figures in the search for the woodpecker, agrees there is a high probability that the bird is gone.
约翰·帕特里克作为康奈尔鸟类学实验室的一把手同时那次搜寻啄木鸟行动中的领军人物之一，认为该种鸟类非常可能已经消失殆尽。 - Originally, I thought I was just taking a picture of a green woodpecker flying.
一开始我只以为自己拍下了啄木鸟飞起来的照片。 - But they are not enough to stand on the trees. A woodpecker needs help from its tail.
它在树上自由攀登可不能没有这个神奇的尾巴。 - Large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct.
美国南部和古巴长有象牙喙的大型黑白色啄木鸟；几乎已灭绝。 - Some fear the new protections might push species such as the Texas kangaroo rat or the golden-winged warbler down the same road to extinction as the ivory-billed woodpecker.
一些人担心，新的保护动作将使如德州戴鼠鼠和金翅萤森莺这样的物种走上和象牙嘴啄木鸟一样的灭绝之路。 - Woodpecker of Europe and western Asia.
产于欧洲和亚洲东部的啄木鸟。 - It all started years ago when a couple of them discovered she had a rare species of woodpecker coming to her bird feeder.
这一切发生在多年前，有两个鸟类学家发现有只稀有品种的啄木鸟来吃她喂食器里的食物。 - Woodpecker is a doctor, she has a big hospital.
啄木鸟是一个医生，她有一个很大的医院。 - As I search for them, I see a downy woodpecker spiraling up a birch tree, its blaze of reds as sharp as a tongue of flame.
我四处查看，发现了一支身披厚厚羽毛的啄木鸟正沿着白桦树盘旋上升，它那鲜红的色彩宛如跳跃的火焰。 - If I walk through a forest in Georgia, where I live, and fail to see or hear the pileated woodpecker, am I permitted to conclude that the bird is absent?
假如我在我所居住的佐治亚州穿过某个树林时没有看到北美黑啄木鸟或听到它的声音，我是不是就可以说这种鸟不存在呢？