canaries
英 [kəˈneəriz]
美 [kəˈnɛriz]
n. 金丝雀
canary的复数
柯林斯词典
- 金丝雀
Canariesare small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.
英英释义
noun
- a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
双语例句
- The cellular detox failure this deficiency causes can make these patients canaries to their environment.
细胞排毒没有这方面的不足的原因可以使这些患者的金丝雀他们的环境。 - I cannot divert him with singing like the canaries and linnets;
不能像鸟儿一样为他歌唱； - So vocal are they that they are sometimes called sea canaries.
这声音予它们海洋金丝雀之称。 - Canaries are said to have been used to detect gas in coal mines in the early stages of coal mining.
在煤矿开采的早期，人们已用金丝雀来检测瓦斯。 - Bill: What a beautiful pair of canaries! How long have you had them?
比尔：这对金丝雀真美丽！你养了多久？ - As I had been one Voyage to this Coast before, I knew very well that the Islands of the Canaries, and the Cape de Verd Islands also, lay not far off from the Coast.
在那一带，我们始终没有发现人类的足迹。过去我曾到这一带的海岸来过一次，知道加那利群岛和佛得角群岛离大陆海岸不远。 - There are several "canaries in the coalmine" that are also suffering.
其它一些预警信号也表现糟糕。 - For centuries, sailors have called belugas "sea canaries," for their musical squeaks and chirps.
几世纪以来，水手们一直称白鲸为“海上金丝雀”，因为它们的叫声悦耳动听。 - At that time it was not very easy to import canaries from foreign countries, because of logistic and economic difficulties.
那个时候从国外进口金丝雀不是很容易的事，因为逻辑上和经济上的困难。 - Canaries were formerly used in coal mines for this reason.
为此原因，露天煤矿以前经常使用金丝雀。