woodpecker

英 [ˈwʊdpekə(r)]

美 [ˈwʊdpekər]

n.  啄木鸟

复数：woodpeckers　

CET6

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
  Synonym:peckerwoodpecker

双语例句

• Small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees.
  以苹果树和枫树等树木的树汁为食的美洲小啄木鸟。
• 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。
• Then in2004 a kayaker caught a glimpse of a majestic woodpecker in a wildlife refuge in Arkansas.
  直到2004年，一艘皮艇上的人在阿肯色州的自然保护区捕捉到了一只雄壮的啄木鸟的身影。
• It was the only place left with all nine European woodpecker species, because, he realized, some of them only nest in hollow, dying trees.
  这里是唯一生活着全部九种欧洲啄木鸟的地方。他于是意识到，有些啄木鸟的品种只栖身于中空的、濒临死亡的树木中。
• The woodpecker pecked a hole in the tree.
  啄木鸟在树上啄了一个洞。
• The ivory-billed woodpecker was once found across the swampy forests of the south-eastern states.
  曾有人在东南部的沼泽森林一带时发现过象牙喙啄木鸟。
• 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。
• Quickly, they go to ask the woodpecker for help.
  大家赶紧叫来了啄木鸟。
• 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。
• Woodpecker of Europe and western Asia.
  产于欧洲和亚洲东部的啄木鸟。