喜樂美語
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    A mockingbird is an American bird that copies the songs of other birds — and sometimes other noises, like a car alarm or a phone. The northern mockingbird is the famous one in the United States; people notice it because it repeats a phrase again and again, often late at night. The name is plain: a bird that “mocks,” meaning it copies, not that it is being . You will also meet it in the book title To Kill a Mockingbird, which many students read; there the bird stands for something that only copies what it hears and should not be harmed.

    嘲鶇（會學其他鳥叫的美洲鳥）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成mocking + bird — named because the bird copies sounds, and can even hum as a kind of wake-up call.

同家族的字

  • mockingthe copying (and the first half of the name)
  • mockhere “copy a sound,” not “be unkind to someone”
  • birdthe second half of the compound

原始詞典資料2 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。

mockingbirdnoun/ˈmɒkɪŋbɜːd/

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    Any of various long-tailed American songbirds of the genera Mimus and Melanotis, noted for their ability to mimic calls of other birds.

  • 2

    archaicSynonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”).

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。