Canary

(noun.) any of several small Old World finches.

(noun.) a female singer.

(adj.) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow .

校对:杜鲁门

• Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In the breakfast-room I found my aunt's favourite canary singing in his cage. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There sat the canary in a corner, bunched and fluffed up for sleep. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa have given their consent; and if ever canary birds were in a flutter, they are. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Wilfer, modestly dropping his voice on the word, as he eyed the canary-coloured fittings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The canary is revived by oxygen and the crew puts on safety helmets before proceeding. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• From these Mr Venus rescues the canary in a glass case, and shows it to the boy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr Venus, always in exceedingly low spirits and making whimpering sounds, peers about for the stuffed canary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A canary's cage was hanging in the window, and its aim seems to have been to get at the bird. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Doll I work for, lost a canary-bird. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They put out to sea to the west and found the Canary Isles, Madeira, and the Azores. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Everything on the table was in silver too, and two footmen, with red hair and canary-coloured liveries, stood on either side of the sideboard. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• At this moment the greasy door is violently pushed inward, and a boy follows it, who says, after having let it slam: 'Come for the stuffed canary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The Count was exercising his canaries as he used to exercise them in Marian's time at Blackwater Park. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They are almost as tame as the canaries, and they are perpetually let out like the canaries. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My cockatoo, my canaries, and my little mice--who will cherish them when their good Papa is gone? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I will offer my canaries and my cockatoo to this vast Metropolis--my agent shall present them in my name to the Zoological Gardens of London. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The canaries and the cockatoo were probably in some other room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Canaries of unrivalled vivacity and intelligence: worthy of the garden of Eden, worthy also of the garden in the Regent's Park. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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