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A chaffinch is a small, common in Europe. The male is the one people notice: a pink-brown chest, a grey-blue cap, and two clear white bars on the wings. The female is paler and browner. You hear them in gardens, parks, and woods, and they often hop on the ground looking for seeds. It is an ordinary countryside bird, not a rare one, and the word is simply the bird’s name — not slang, and not a poetic use of “finch.” If you already know robin or as “the little bird in the garden,” a chaffinch belongs in that same everyday group, just with a more colourful male.
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chaffinchnoun/ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/
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A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。