| 单词 | duckling |
| 释义 | duckling (once / 4880 pages) n A duckling is a baby duck. Ducklings usually learn to swim by following their mother to a body of water. Ducklings, like all birds, hatch from eggs that are typically laid in a nest. Soon after all the ducklings hatch, the mother duck leads them to water, where most kinds of ducks spend the greater parts of their lives. One of literature's most famous ducklings is the one in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" — although that duckling, in the end, turned out to be a swan. WORD FAMILYduckling: ducklings+/duck: ducked, ducking, duckling, ducks/ducking: duckings USAGE EXAMPLESThe heartwarming story and elegant illustrations in “Make Way for Ducklings” have dazzled readers for decades. Seattle Times(Nov 25, 2016) She began to feel somewhat like the ugly duckling must have felt. Washington Times(Nov 24, 2016) Indeed, in a Manhattan world in which Trump is generally loathed, his kids are considered swans produced by an ugly duckling. Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016) 1n young duck Hyper duck small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs 2n flesh of a young domestic duck Hyper duck flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) |
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