canaries
英 [kəˈneəriz]
美 [kəˈnɛriz]
n. 金丝雀
canary的复数
柯林斯词典
- 金丝雀
Canariesare small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.
英英释义
noun
- a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
双语例句
- In the early days of underground coal mining, pit canaries often had short but valuable lives.
早期地下采煤的时候，矿井中的金丝雀常常拥有短暂而有价值的一生。 - As I had been one Voyage to this Coast before, I knew very well that the Islands of the Canaries, and the Cape de Verd Islands also, lay not far off from the Coast.
在那一带，我们始终没有发现人类的足迹。过去我曾到这一带的海岸来过一次，知道加那利群岛和佛得角群岛离大陆海岸不远。 - Elderly men gather in public gardens with their canaries to discuss the news of the day.
老年人聚在公园里，高声讨论当日的新闻。 - So vocal are they that they are sometimes called sea canaries.
这声音予它们海洋金丝雀之称。 - Once I start eating canaries, I just can't stop!
一旦我开始吃金丝雀，我就停不下来！ - The cellular detox failure this deficiency causes can make these patients canaries to their environment.
细胞排毒没有这方面的不足的原因可以使这些患者的金丝雀他们的环境。 - Canaries are said to have been used to detect gas in coal mines in the early stages of coal mining.
在煤矿开采的早期，人们已用金丝雀来检测瓦斯。 - As canaries in coal mines go, mining shares tend to be reliable harbingers of a sell-off in industrial commodities in a downturn.
在煤矿里用金丝雀来预警的时代已经过去，矿业股正成为经济下滑时工业用大宗商品是否会遭抛售的可靠预兆。 - As my friend's experience shows, children are kind of like little litmus strips, the canaries in the coal mine of marital stress: they absorb the emotional climate around them.
正如我那位朋友的经历所显示的那样，如果说婚姻像个煤矿，那孩子们就有点像预报瓦斯浓度的金丝雀：他们会吸收周围的情绪气氛。 - Canaries were formerly used in coal mines for this reason.
为此原因，露天煤矿以前经常使用金丝雀。