| 单词 | sandpiper |
| 释义 | Related topics: Birdssand·pip·er /ˈsændˌpaɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable] HBBa small bird with long legs and a long beak that lives near the shore 鹬〔一种生活在岸边的腿和喙较长的小鸟〕Examples from the Corpussandpiper• Buoyant as a duck, slender as a sandpiper, small as a dunlin.• Lightly as sandpipers marking the shoreline boats at the jetty sprang and rocked upon the green water.• As we taxied to a halt on the coastal grassy runway, we disturbed parties of curlew, sandpipers and grey plover.• They were like sandpipers at the edge of the surf-they lived inches from the water and their feet Were never wet.• A flock of sandpipers running at the edge of the waves lures me from the point.• In winter it is given over to turnstones, purple sandpiper, oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds.• Purple sandpipers arc the most self-effacing of birds.• For a while he stood on the soft sand, watching the waves break and the sandpipers scatter under them.sand·pip·er nounChineseSyllable long and a bird that a small Corpus with beak long legs |
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