Cuckoo

(noun.) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail.

(verb.) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call.

校对:特伦斯

• Never in my life, prettily repeated Sophia in her own cuckoo-strain. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But the American cuckoo is in this predicament, for she makes her own nest and has eggs and young successively hatched, all at the same time. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• By a continued process of this nature, I believe that the strange instinct of our cuckoo has been generated. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Secondly, that the eggs are remarkably small, not exceeding those of the skylark--a bird about one-fourth as large as the cuckoo. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

编辑:史蒂夫