Plumage

(n.) The entire clothing of a bird.

校对:西蒙

• Yes; there it lies on its side, dried up; except for its plumage, very like myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I could not eat the tart; and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded: I put both plate and tart away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Cockatoo of transcendent plumage: attraction, of himself, to all visitors of taste. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Such a night for plumage! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Jane, be still; don't struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

整理:莉莲