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单词 ostrich
释义
ostrich
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒs.trɪtʃ/us
/ˈɑː.strɪtʃ/

ostrichnoun[C](BIRD)

a verylargebirdfromAfricathat cannotfly:
鸵鸟
The ostrich is thefastestanimalon twolegs.鸵鸟是跑得最快的两足动物。
picture of ostrich
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Other wild birds
  • bird of paradise
  • blackbird
  • blue tit
  • bluebird
  • bluejay
  • finch
  • flycatcher
  • goldfinch
  • greenfinch
  • honeyeater
  • lorikeet
  • lyrebird
  • macaw
  • magpie
  • martin
  • song thrush
  • sparrow
  • squab
  • starling
  • swift
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ostrichnoun[C](PERSON)

informal
someone who says that aproblemdoes notexist, because they do notwanttodealwith it:
逃避现实者，不愿正视现实者
If you're an ostrich aboutyourdebts, you're only going to makemattersworse.如果你不愿正视自己的债务问题，只会让事情变得更糟糕。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Neglecting and ignoring
  • beneath the/someone'sradaridiom
  • blocksomethingout
  • brushsomeone/somethingoff
  • bury/haveyourhead in the sandidiom
  • bypass
  • crack
  • ear
  • lay
  • let goidiom
  • let sleeping dogs lieidiom
  • letsomethinggo/passidiom
  • letsomethingrideidiom
  • look straight/right throughsomeoneidiom
  • nose
  • setsomethingaside
  • shut
  • shutsomeone/somethingout
  • shutyoureyes tosomethingidiom
  • silent
  • the silent treatmentidiom
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(Definition ofostrichfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ostrich| American Dictionary

ostrich
noun[C]
us
/ˈɔ·strɪtʃ,ˈɑs·trɪtʃ/
a verylargebirdfromAfricathat has alongneckandlonglegsand cannotfly
(Definition ofostrichfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofostrich

ostrich
The strangely shaped image to the right of the ostriches is such an example.
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All the farms surveyed did not have regular deworming programmes for their ostriches.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He planned to organize it as a farm, where chimps would be cultivated like ostriches.
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Theostrichwas also legally transformed into private property, with enclosure recognized as conferring proprietary rights.
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The key commercial species were elephant andostrichfor the ivory and feather export markets.
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Such information, however, needs to be made available to allostrichproducers in the country.
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The concomitant collapse of ivory and wildostrichfeather production underlined the fact that harvesting wild animals on the public commons was unsustainable.
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Of the known depicted subjects, theostrichand giraffe are the two creatures painted with medium or long necks.
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If this is what they indeed did, then the last laugh was certainly with theostrich.
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They intend to use some puppets, and display ostriches; it will not be violent or disruptive, and it will certainly not be aggressive.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
After all, having a problem but not looking into it is like burying your head in the sand as ostriches do.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
When does anostrichbecome a bird ?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Data from questionnaires designed to assess farm management practices showed that four out of seven (57.1%) of theostrichproducers were unaware of the importance of wireworms in ostriches.
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In this respect we are behaving like the aforementionedostrich.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
However, we do not solve problems by being ostriches and refusing to look problems in the face.
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