词汇搭配
词组短语
eat crow丢脸;被迫收回自己说的话
as the crow flies笔直地
crow about吹嘘
同近义词辨析
pride, boast, brag, crow
这组词都有“自夸,吹嘘”的意思,其区别是:
pride与boast的意义较接近,指炫耀、夸口,自鸣得意,常与反身代词连用。
boast普通用词,指对自己所做的事,自己的长处、财富以及家庭等的夸耀,常含言过其实的意味。
brag非正式用词,其夸耀和吹嘘意味强于boast,到了过分夸大,有时令人讨厌的地步。
crow多指大声吵嚷地吹嘘,夸耀自己做某事比他人做得好。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
- The crow is a bird of ill omen.
乌鸦是不祥的预兆。 - He gets up at the crow of the rooster every day.
他每天鸡鸣即起。
用作动词(v.)
- It was dawn, and I could hear a cock crowing somewhere.
天亮了,我听到从某处传来雄鸡的报晓声。 - The rooster flew up to a big rock and began to crow.
公鸡飞上大石头,开始鸣叫。 - He is the kind of person who always crows about his success.
他是那种总是夸耀自己成功的人。 - You should not crow over a defeated enemy.
你不应该在被你击败的敌手面前洋洋得意。
权威例句
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...Book Interview: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of ColorblindnessThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Melissa AlexanderNot as the crow flies: a historical explanation for circuitous migration in Swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatus).Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessThe new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander ; with a new foreword by Cornel WestMichelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessCrow deaths as a sentinel surveillance system for West Nile virus in the northeastern United States, 1999.Schizophrenia as Failure of Hemispheric Dominance for Language: Comment on CrowDead crow densities and human cases of West Nile virus, New York State, 2000.