| 单词 | robin food |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrobin food C1. General attributive with the sense ‘of or belonging to a robin’, as robin food, robin song, etc. ΚΠ 1846 Fairy Birds from Fancy Islet iv. 280 Robinetta also struck up the softest robin song,—a song that came from Fancy Islet in her crystal wings. 1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 713/1 Here was..the robin-house Aleck had built for her tamed birds. 1881 S. Lanier in Scribner's Monthly July 453 Nothing but robin-songs heard under heaven. 1919 Auk 36 216 No unusual abundance or scarcity of Robin food has been revealed by such observations as I have been able to make. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 15 A robin with no Christian name ran through The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew. 1983 T. Hughes River 96 Robin song bronze-touching the stillness Over posthumous nettles. 1997 New Scientist 31 May 10/2 They removed robin eggs and put them into the nests of tomtits. < as lemmas |
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