单词 | mynah |
例句 | Breakfast was punctuated by the shrieks and cries of howler monkeys, hill mynahs and Moluccan cockatoos. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a mynah bird. Oh, and I’m Winnike. Here’s my card.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For some reason I thought them stupid and then found initially from parrots, mynah birds, crows, and ravens that they are indeed not only not ignorant and stupid but in many cases smarter than people. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Well, the mynah was free now, and it hadn’t even looked back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A flutter caught Tendai’s attention: the mynah was battering the force screen in an attempt to get out the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And when that tree was in bloom, it was a regular aviary of crows, mynahs, babblers, rosy pastors, sunbirds and parakeets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The mynah lifted on a rise of warm air as it coasted over the garden wall, over the snapping electric wires and broken glass and machine guns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z That unbalanced the mynah so it couldn’t fly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The mynah was perfectly capable of flight now. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In one of the cages was a mynah bird that had been blinded to make it sing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The mynah—a living creature smuggled in by the Mellower—stirred in its cage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The women sounded like a flock of mynah birds as they recounted tales of dogs, cats, budgies and horses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Each time I paused I could hear sparrows twittering, and the thin, clear note of a mynah. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The mynah paid no attention to this polite reply. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The mynah squawked as it was pushed aside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We watched three hill mynahs fly overhead when we heard the long, lilting song of the Malabar whistling thrush. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z The same year, my parents bought a mynah bird, aptly named Morris. Family life 2013-05-18T06:15:02Z She invented a mynah bird that, because it once belonged to a lord, continually squawks things like “Ho, there, a chair for Lady Fothergill!,” and dropped it on a ship on the high seas. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Very little happens, yet how true to life it seems – the background of disconsolate rains and chattering mynah birds entirely Bombay, the preoccupations universal. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Packed inside was her beloved pet with clipped wings — the famously chatty mynah, common in its range across Southeast Asia. A bird stars in rare feel-good tale about Afghan evacuations 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z This energetic little mynah escaped his box and made a big mess in the car. Evacuated Afghan girl's pet bird finds sanctuary with French envoy 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The first apricot blossom of the season is beginning to bloom, while mynah birds chirp overhead. Deadly encounters: the night the Indian army arrived in a village... 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The stowaway, a mynah bird, appeared in the business class section of a Singapore Airlines flight last Monday. Stowaway bird found on plane mid-flight 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z A mynah calls from the garden and another answers. “Philosophy of the Foot” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Folktales and royal texts are replete with mynahs, parrots, and pigeons that adorned imperial courts and entertained wealthy families. Dyed But Alive, Disguised Birds Skirt Laws and Fetch High Prices 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Xavier Chatel took in the little mynah, named Juji, after the girl was stopped from bringing it on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to France. Evacuated Afghan girl's pet bird finds sanctuary with French envoy 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The myna, also known as Rothschild's mynah, the Bali starling, or the Jalak Bali, is the regional mascot of Bali and faces extinction in the wild. Vista man fined $1,000 for trying to sell protected birds to undercover agent 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Many children are natural mimics, but Keyuk could imitate speech like a mynah. Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Bird life is diverse and interesting, although in a number of places introduced forms, like mynahs and turtle doves, have forced the native varieties back into the jungle. A Racial Study of the Fijians 2012-03-15T02:00:31.197Z When I went there in July, I saw jet-black hill mynahs with their neon orange beaks, finch-size green avadavats with their yellow bellies and zebra-striped flanks, lovebirds, cockatoos, and various parakeets. Dyed But Alive, Disguised Birds Skirt Laws and Fetch High Prices 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z So he sat in the dusk, when his work was over, with his bird-cage in his hand trying to teach his mynah to talk as the others did, and not thinking of much else. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z The multitude of mynahs and the hornbills with their beaks like scythes ignore the heat as they laboriously construct their nests. Heat and dust 2010-05-08T10:52:00Z Parrots and parakeets live among the tree-tops, and doves and pigeons, jays and mynahs, and a great variety of small birds, find their home here. Burma Peeps at Many Lands They find great, deep satisfaction in imitating the actions of humans, as parrots and mynahs and parrokets imitate human speech. Pariah Planet Overhead the mynah birds are making a great to-do, and the surf beats ceaselessly against the reef. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands The mynah, with the regularity and sureness of long training, caught each one unfailingly—finally coming to rest on the boy's hand. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z There is a finish about the mynah's and the starling's mimicry which certainly beats that of the parrots. The Naturalist on the Thames At Raisina we had mynahs and the babblers, or "Seven Sisters," in great profusion, and also the King Crow with his imposing tail; while the little striped squirrels were everywhere. Roving East and Roving West Hill mynahs, of the genus Eulabes, often talk as well as parrots. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Then, cool and happy, they wandered back in the gloaming over the soft grass road to the creek, walking hand in hand, and now the mynah birds filled the coconut trees with their clamour. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands The boy who would not sell me the mynah for six annas told me that a one-eyed man had come there and drunk the bad waters and gone mad. The Day's Work - Part 01 They have a good deal in common with those bright, clever, and famous mimics, the Indian mynahs, which they much resemble physically. The Naturalist on the Thames The mynahs have also the starling's habit of building in houses, and especially in temples. The Naturalist on the Thames I smelt it, but I did not get the mynah even for six annas. The Day's Work - Part 01 |
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