詞彙精選：crow的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
烏鴉
例句：
The crow is a bird of ill omen.
烏鴉是不祥的預兆。
例句：
The crow's cry bodes rain.
烏鴉啼預示要下雨。
雞啼
例句：
The crow of the rooster woke me up.
雄雞的啼叫聲把我吵醒了。
例句：
The long crow of rooster split the gray morning sky.
一隻雄雞引吮長鳴，驚破了黎明時的蒼穹。
v.
啼叫；報曉 [I]
例句：
The cock is crowing.
這隻公雞正在啼鳴。
例句：
The cock crows in the farmyard.
雄雞在農家院中啼叫。
歡叫 [I]
例句：
The baby crowed with pleasure when its father picked it up.
那嬰兒的父親把他抱起來的時候，他樂得格格地笑。
例句：
The baby only shook the rattle and laughed and crowed.
孩子只是搖着撥浪鼓，笑着叫着。
揚揚自得 [I]
例句：
He crowed about his promotion.
他因獲得晉升而自鳴得意。
例句：
She crowed over his disappointment.
她因他受了挫折而幸災樂禍。
二、詞義辨析：
boast,brag,crow,pride
這些動詞均含有“自誇，吹噓”之意。boast普通用詞，指對自己所做的事，自己的長處、財富以及家庭等的誇耀，常含言過其實的意味。brag非正式用詞，其誇耀和吹噓意味強於boast，到了過分誇大，有時令人討厭的地步。crow多指大聲吵嚷地吹噓，誇耀自己做某事比他人做得好。pride與boast的意義較接近，指炫耀、誇口，自鳴得意，常與反身代詞連用。
三、相關短語：
as the crow flies
成直線地,走捷徑地
carrion crow
n. 吃腐肉的烏鴉
crow's nest
n. 守望樓,崗亭
jim crow
挺器，彎軌器，軌條撓曲器
crow's foot
n. 眼角皺紋
四、參考例句：
That is a talking crow
那是一隻會說話的烏鴉。
The rooster's crow woke me.
雄雞的啼聲把我吵醒。
The crow's cry bodes rain.
烏鴉啼預示要下雨。
The crow of the rooster woke me up.
雄雞的啼叫聲把我吵醒了。
A crow of bloodthirsty ants are attracted by the carrion.
一羣嗜血的螞蟻被腐肉所吸引。
The long crow of rooster split the gray morning sky.
一隻雄雞引吮長鳴，驚破了黎明時的蒼穹。
There is a black crow on the rock.
岩石上有隻黑色的烏鴉。
"That is a talking crow," she told me.
“那是一隻會說話的烏鴉，”她告訴我。
The crow is a bird of ill omen.
烏鴉是不祥的預兆。
The crow cawed as loudly as she could.
這隻烏鴉盡力大聲地呱呱叫。
