| 单词 | crake |
| 释义 | crake (once / 50082 pages) n WORD FAMILY crake: crakes USAGE EXAMPLESLike David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas” or Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake,” “The Mandibles” depicts a world that is at once familiar and horribly altered. New York Times(Jul 11, 2016) And like the sea they teemed with invisible life: warblers, bitterns, spotted crakes, otters, water voles and marshland insects like reed leopard moths. New York Times(Apr 07, 2015) The Teacher’s underground birdcages can’t hold their crakes and eagles, and eventually the Akkad boy himself seems like a creature that has flown free. Washington Post(Mar 30, 2015) n any of several short-billed Old World rails Hypo|Hyper Crex crex, corncrake, land rail common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields Porzana porzana, spotted crakeEurasian rail of swamps and marshes rail any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud |
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