| 单词 | cygnet |
| 例句 | And if you want your kids to be familiar with cygnets and acorns, don’t worry about whether they’ll find those words in a book. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z And in the company’s Chinese variation, Greenberg played an Asian man who pushes four cygnets onto the stage in a rickshaw. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Photograph: Phil Fisk for the Observer A swan and her cygnets are settling at the edge of the Serpentine river, right on top of our photographer's cable. Stars go wild in the countryside 2011-08-06T23:05:32Z Not that we don’t deplore a world in which acorn and cygnet are omitted from the top 10,000 words, but I’m not sure the dictionary is the hill to die on in that fight. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The Swan Upping is conducted each year to tally swans, and in particular their cygnet offspring, claimed by the British monarch. UK’s royal swan census resumes on river after pandemic pause 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z What's more, Murphy creatively builds on tradition in some passages — the cygnets, for example — expanding the original choreographic concept to accommodate the company's admirable 21st century technique. Australian Ballet's 'Swan Lake' a royal disconnect 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z He obtained swan eggs from zoos, and once the cygnets hatched, he transported them to a farm, where his small staff of bird experts watched over them. DANCE: Choreography With Real Swans 2012-06-03T04:30:53Z “The story of the ugly duckling was never about the cygnet discovering he is lovely,” McLemore writes. Novels That Freshen Up Some Well-Worn Classics 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The signers wanted the editors to restore some words about nature that had been removed — words like acorn, cygnet, heron, ivy and nectar. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z His oversize statue — with oversize top hat and oversize cygnet — permanently hogs a granite bench in Central Park. Review: In ‘Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real and Imagined,’ No Happily Ever After 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Analysis of the GPS data shows that cygnets fly further to the southwest during autumn migration on colder days. Bewick's swans choose wintering areas based on the weather 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The British monarch’s annual “swan upping” — a census of the fowl along a stretch of the River Thames — found a worrisome drop in cygnets from last year. Your Friday Briefing 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z A historic royal census, known as "swan upping", has revealed a 40% drop in the number of cygnets on the River Thames, compared with last year. Swan upping: Royal cygnet numbers drop by 40% in a year 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z In his scarlet jacket, Mr Barber is in charge of a flotilla of small boats that glide up the River Thames, stopping to count, weigh, measure and check the well-being of young swans, called cygnets. 'Swan upping': Royal tradition begins on the Thames 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Police said they were told about the four missing baby swans, or cygnets, when a citizen saw two of them at a store in the nearby town of Salina. New York teens arrested for killing and eating a swan, stealing bird’s babies 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The village of Manlius in upstate New York is mourning the loss of Faye, a swan who was stolen from the town’s pond over the weekend along with her four cygnets. Beloved New York swan babies rescued after mother was eaten, police say 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The young cygnet was spotted by a student at The Old Library of St John's College. Swan stuck in drainpipe gets winched to safety 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Only 94 cygnets were found on the five-day search of the Thames. Swan upping: Royal cygnet numbers drop by 40% in a year 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Swan Uppers travel along the river in rowing boats to weigh and measure cygnets and check them for any signs of illness or injury. Annual Swan Upping gets under way along the River Thames 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z A teen worker at the store confessed to kidnapping the cygnets. New York teens arrested for killing and eating a swan, stealing bird’s babies 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The cygnets, or baby swans, were recovered, but officials say the mama swan was eaten. Beloved New York swan babies rescued after mother was eaten, police say 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z To me, the highlight was a pristine marsh brimming with relatively uncommon birds, including black terns, colorful redhead ducks, and a pair of trumpeter swan parents swimming alongside their fuzzy gray cygnet. Beyond Assateague: The wonders of Maryland’s lesser-known state parks 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Down from 155 in 2022, it was the lowest number of cygnets for seven years. Swan upping: Royal cygnet numbers drop by 40% in a year 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The Queen's Swan Marker, David Barber, will detail the number of swans, broods and cygnets counted. Annual Swan Upping gets under way along the River Thames 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The cygnets will return to the pond in a few weeks when they are old enough to survive on their own, police said. New York teens arrested for killing and eating a swan, stealing bird’s babies 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Police said Faye and this year’s cygnets went missing on Saturday, but that officials weren’t notified until Monday. Beloved New York swan babies rescued after mother was eaten, police say 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Young cygnets are taken ashore to be weighed and measured. UK's swan-uppers take to the Thames to check on queen's birds 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Teams dressed in scarlet outfits row up the river, stopping to count, weigh and measure any cygnets they find. Swan upping: Royal cygnet numbers drop by 40% in a year 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z On Sept. 19, staff from the park, Wyoming Wetlands Society and the Ricketts Conservation Foundation released eight young swans, called cygnets, at Alum Creek in the Hayden Valley. Trumpeter swan cygnets released in Yellowstone National Park 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z In 1998, 115 years after the last known trumpeter swans had occupied Iowa, three wild trumpeter swan cygnets hatched in Dubuque County. Trumpeter swan population slowly rising in Iowa 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z David Barber said the number of cygnets were down on last year as his team began an annual population survey. River Thames swans 'under threat' 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s done with an all-male company of cygnets, as broadly populist as if it was a Broadway musical. On my radar: Richard E Grant’s cultural highlights 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z They counted 33 cygnets in eight broods by the time they reached Eton College. Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Henry and Henrietta went on to have 68 cygnets over the next six years. Memorial for free-loving iconic LGBT goose 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “We also receive swans in from about 10 zoos around the country that donate their cygnets,” Hoffman said. Trumpeter swan population slowly rising in Iowa 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The animals, believed to be a mother and cygnet, were found on a canal near Maldon Golf Club in Essex on Saturday alongside an empty packet of 12 bolts. Swans shot in head with crossbow bolts 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z In his farewell speech, the man known as Supermac remarked that "this is my swan song, but I hope to hand over to this young cygnet". The MPs and ex-MPs who died in 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The crown usually claims half of the new cygnets. Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Phelps says that with luck the nesting swans will return to the area next year to hatch more cygnets. Trumpeter swans’ hatchling is 1st in modern Indiana history 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z “So those cygnets that are raised in captivity here in Iowa are from zoos, like Blank Park Zoo, for example, then those cygnets are the ones that get released out in the wild.” Trumpeter swan population slowly rising in Iowa 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Then things went awry: The female and the cygnet ducked under a gangplank and escaped downstream. In Search of Post-Brexit England, and Swans 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z "A lot of the injuries we get these days is through fishing tackle. When the cygnets are very young, they get caught in fishing tackle quite easily," Barber added. Annual Royal 'Swan-Upping' takes place on River Thames 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Britain's Queen Elizabeth's Swan Uppers look for cygnets while sailing down the River Thames, in Staines on Thames, England, Monday July 18, 2016, during the annual count of the Queen's swans on the river Thames. Dog attacks loom over this year's count of queen's swans 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The hike leads past waters frequented by trumpeter swans that produced cygnets this year that will be fledgling this fall. October a glorious time for Inland Northwest hikers, bikers 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z One by one, each of the five downy young cygnets was weighed, measured and given a clean bill of health. It's 'swan upping' time, as Britons count the queen's waterfowl 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Two feathered white bergs and a lone cygnet drifted serenely past the riverside mansions of Bourne End. In Search of Post-Brexit England, and Swans 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Today, it is a way of collecting data and assessing young cygnets for injury or disease. Along River Thames, Swan Uppers begin annual bird census 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Some days they observe the trumpeter swan population, surveying nesting habits, counting cygnets after they hatch and making sure those cygnets are still in the nest weeks later. Volunteers find home on elk refuge 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The zoo announced Friday it recently welcomed four trumpeter swan cygnets to the McCormick Swan Pond. Chicago’s zoo welcomes 4 trumpeter swans 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses and a banquet where guests dined on capons, cygnets, herons and rabbits. Discovery reveals how to rebury a medieval king 2013-11-22T00:19:56Z Young cygnets are counted and swans and cygnets are assessed for injury or disease during the ceremony. Photos of the Day: July 15 2013-07-15T19:53:41Z From their boats, each flying flags and pennants, the teams round up the swans on the Thames, shouting "All Up!" when a brood of cygnets is spotted. Along River Thames, Swan Uppers begin annual bird census 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It really is fantastic to see so many cygnets arriving back. Baby boost for threatened swans 2012-12-24T00:29:06Z A swan lays four to 10 eggs at two-day intervals, but cygnets hatch together. 'Cyber egg' used to record swans 2012-08-14T17:02:23Z The charity in Eton, Berkshire, is housing 15 of the lake's swans, including nine cygnets. Serpentine swans moved for Games 2012-08-09T09:27:45Z Swans and cygnets are also there, and a knight in armor! Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Indeed, I think I can fly a little already,' and Rollo began flopping about his white wings like a newly-fledged and rather awkward cygnet. Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z "The pair of swans on the lake at Hampton Court," says a news item, "have hatched out seven young cygnets." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916 2012-02-23T03:00:40.467Z The water parts With dimpling smiles around thee, and below, The unsunn'd verdure, soft as cygnet's down, Meets thy descending feet without a sound. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z My song to-day is a breeze that shakes Feebly the down on the cygnet's breast; 'Twas then a billow the beach that rakes, Or a storm that buffets the mountain's crest. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z Ruffles of wind chased one another from moment to moment across the water, and the swans, guarding their cygnets, policed the farther bank, where dogs ran barking. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z With one cygnet dying soon after hatching, the final young becomes the first to survive in Norfolk since 1928, the WWT said. Migratory swan cygnet is 'rare' sight in Norfolk 2011-07-29T13:34:47Z She moves, all grace, with gliding limbs As a white-breasted cygnet swims. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z And oh! what radiant beauty doth invest Our tent that seems to feel a conscious pride, Whiter by far than any cygnet's breast, Or cygnet's shadow floating with the tide. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z I saw a great wonder to-day while out hunting,—a swan with thirteen cygnets, and she driving away the thirteenth continually, and keeping the twelve with her. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z Cease, cease, my love, this tender voice of woe, Though softer than the dying cygnet's plaint: She ever chants her most melodious strain When death and sorrow harmonise her note. The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts 2011-05-31T02:00:32.980Z But the WWT said it was very rare for cygnets to hatch successfully on UK shores. Migratory swan cygnet is 'rare' sight in Norfolk 2011-07-29T13:34:47Z On the placid bosom of the small lake the yacht lay motionless, while a pair of swans, with their brood of cygnets, swam near her. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z He could hear the plashing of their palms, like young cygnets beating the water with their wings. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Eggs take 35 days to hatch from when they are laid, and the first cygnet to appear at the swannery is traditionally said to mark the beginning of summer. 'Gay' swans nest together 2010-04-15T09:26:00Z It is said Socrates, in a dream, seemed to be holding on his knees a cygnet, which suddenly grew wings and flew aloft, singing sweetly. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare While she sat there, the Crow used to help Mr. Swan to find food for his wife; and when the cygnets came out of their shells, the Crow helped to feed them also. The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India Here, too, for the first time in a state of absolute Nature, I saw that royal bird, the swan, escorting his mate and cygnets on an airing or a luncheon-tour. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Diogenes Laertius reports the story of Socrates having dreamed he found an unfledged cygnet on his knee. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles That alabaster form—that graceful neck How do the cygnets down and whiteness deck?— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 "I mean," said the Crow, "that you may go, if you like, but these cygnets are as much mine as yours, and may I be plucked if I let them go with you!" The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India Chawdon for cygnet and swan, Garlic, &c., for beef and goose, Ginger for fawn, &c., Early English Meals and Manners They seem to be such fools, and they usually behave like silly cygnets. Blue-Bird Weather Young swans are called cygnets, and are at first quite grey or light brown; they do not become perfectly white until the beginning of the third year. Mamma's Stories about Birds The cygnets, when half or full-grown, are esteemed good eating, and are much sought after by the hunters and Indians of the fur countries. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The hooper lays from six to eight eggs, and sits upon them for a period of six weeks, when the cygnets come forth covered with a thick down of a bluish-grey colour. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North They have been known also to attack people who have ventured nearer their cygnets than they liked. Stories of Animal Sagacity Uncle Dudley was still conversing with his wife at intervals; the swans and the cygnets fed or worried their leash snaps; the ducks paddled, or dozed on the stools, balanced on one leg. Blue-Bird Weather Friendly communion, in any case, there could not be: already has the young Teufelsdröckh left the other young geese; and swims apart, though as yet uncertain whether he himself is cygnet or gosling. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History When the cygnets are full-grown, and the frost makes its appearance upon the lakes and rivers of the hyperborean regions, the swans begin to shift southwards. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Afterwards she regaled herself with the breast of a cygnet, stuffed with almonds, and stewed with violets and cream. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Only lately, a person paddling in a canoe near Chelmsford approached a nest of cygnets, when the parent swan swam out, and seizing the bow of the canoe, nearly upset it. Stories of Animal Sagacity I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries The princess had needed no practice, but had danced beautifully from the first, her strong young limbs and supple body taking as naturally to anything requiring grace of movement as a cygnet to water. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth In the same manner they take the young cygnets; and these I believe to be as good eating and as delicate an article of food as any country can produce. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 There are several little steamers which ply on the lake, and numberless little sail and row boats, and beautiful white swans, with tiny olive-colored cygnets, swimming and diving for food. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated "By this palm, softer than the down of the cygnet; by thy lips, redder than rubies; by thy diamond eyes, I swear I love thee dearer than my own soul," exclaimed Spikeman. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance And then the countess was out of her sphere; as much out of her sphere in the woods of Maryland as Hans Christian Andersen's cygnet was in the barnyard full of fowls. Ishmael Or, In the Depths I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Is it snow, or flight of cygnets resting? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Ere yon gray cygnet puts on her white, Or snow lies soft on the wold, Shall shut these eyes on the lovely light, And leave the story untold. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. They were adventurous and valiant men, who took to conquest and sea roving as a cygnet takes to the water. The Thirsty Sword It was the middle of the day, The "Swanherd" and his men went on, "Nicking" the cygnets as they went. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 He is as oblivious of rondeaux, ballades, and roundels, as he is of fair damosels with cygnet necks and full pomegranate lips. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Robin helped him largely to rumble-pie and cygnet and pheasant, and the other dainties of his table; and the friar pledged him in ale and wine, and exhorted him to make good cheer. Maid Marian The cygnet finds the water; but the man is born in ignorance of his element, and feels out blind at first, disorganized by sin in the blood,—his spirit-insight dulled and crossed by his sensations. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Middlemarch The "Swanherd" showed a blue-peaked nose, And white against the cold white sky Shone many a face of those Who o'er the upper reaches swept, On swans and cygnets keeping an eye. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 Caelius Calcagninus alludes to this catastrophe in the following epitaph on our poet:— Those lips, then, hallowed sage, which poured along A music sweet as any cygnet's song, The grape hath closed for ever! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes On the little island, the fluffy, downy cygnets are born and grow to be big birds, with long necks, bent like an arch. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets. English Fairy Tales O Swan! thy critical cygnets are but goslings. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. They have been to her stray robber wasps, to be driven from the hive; while to the others they have seemed cygnets among her duckling brood. Hyacinth But he does not stay to feed the pen chivying her game of cygnets towards the rushes. Ulysses Your condition, cries the Muse of Smiles, is hard, but it is cygnet's down in comparison with mine. Rejected Addresses A word from Prince Florentine, the goshawk, and they all rose into the air, herons beneath, cygnets above, and goshawk circling above all. English Fairy Tales My Mother, indeed, would hardly have been human if she had not occasionally entertained herself with the delusion that her solitary duckling was a cygnet. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments O! that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense Hard as the palm of ploughman! Troilus and Cressida I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death; And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. King John So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings. King Henry VI, Part 1 Friendly communion, in any case, there could not be: already has the young Teufelsdrockh left the other young geese; and swims apart, though as yet uncertain whether he himself is cygnet or gosling. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh |
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