- 1嘲鶇（會學其他鳥叫的美洲鳥）
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.
組成mocking + bird — named because the bird copies sounds, and can even hum as a kind of wake-up call.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
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archaicSynonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”).
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