| 单词 | bandicoot |
| 例句 | I liked the man at once, for he reminded me of the bandicoot under the veranda. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked away when the bandicoot ate the mangoes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Dust lay thick on the floor, there were neat hillocks of chipped cement and the earth where bandicoots, for some obscure reason of their own, had dug. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I threw sticks at the bandicoot, the nasty rat that lived under the house, to keep it from getting our food. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She screamed at me, “You are no better than the bandicoot that burrows under our house and eats our food. Go home to your miserable parents!” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I even said goodbye to the bandicoot, which switched its tail and twitched its whiskers at me in a friendly way. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I was glad enough for the bandicoot’s company, but I did not think I wanted to spend my life sweeping goose droppings from the courtyard and talking to a rat. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I even put in the cow and the bandicoot. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She stood silently, looking miserable, after she was given three potential definitions for the word “bandicoot.” ‘No joke’: Initial rounds of National Spelling Bee get tough 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Announcing the change in conservation status of the bandicoot on Wednesday, Victoria's Environment Minister Lily D'Ambrosio said she was "excited" about the project's success, adding: "It is an incredible first for Australia." Australian bandicoot brought back from brink of extinction 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z There's also concern for the pygmy possums and the southern brown bandicoot on the island. Bushfires bring 'apocalypse' to Kangaroo Island 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z And a great many of those species, like the koala, the southern brown bandicoot and the long-footed potoroo, have populations living in the regions now being obliterated by the fires. ‘It’s an Atomic Bomb’: Australia Deploys Military as Fires Spread 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Cartoon bandicoots running through colorful landscapes were gone. Naughty Dog’s president on how games changed since the first PlayStation: "They’re barely recognizable" 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Recipes for curries made with native animals like bandicoots, another small marsupial, appeared in local newspapers. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z When recorded population levels of the bandicoots plunged in the years leading up to the late 1980s, conservation teams in the state of Victoria invested millions of dollars setting up captive breeding programmes. Australian bandicoot brought back from brink of extinction 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z This poem suggests that a mind in its most natural state is associative: It clings to words like “bandicoot” for the sounds of them. Poem: To Make Myself Happy in the Face of Error 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It's yielded bandicoots, possums, kangaroos, toothed platypuses, small koalas, thousands of bats, fish, turtles, lizards, pythons and a range of rainforest birds. Kitten-sized extinct 'lion' named after David Attenborough - BBC News 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “We are very excited about its potential to not just help bandicoots, but other threatened species as well.” Australia Deploys Sheepdogs to Protect Penguins From Foxes 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z There, it’s the desert bandicoot, the Christmas Island pipistrelle and the Nullarbor dwarf bettong that have disappeared. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s thought that around 20 million years ago, the bilby branched off from its closest relative, the bandicoot. Australia’s Easter Bunny: the Long-Eared Greater Bilby 2014-04-20T01:17:24Z Unfortunately, bandicoots—like most of Australia’s native mammals—are in decline. Dig This: Decline of Australian Digging Mammals Impacts Entire Ecosystems 2013-09-25T20:15:05.657Z Looks to me like a love-sick bandicoot, or a consumptive kangaroo. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The puppies will learn to bond with sheep, which will also be present at the three trial sites, and with bandicoots, which are shy, nocturnal creatures, said Kimberley Polkinghorne, communications manager for the Werribee zoo. Australia Deploys Sheepdogs to Protect Penguins From Foxes 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “People don’t know what a bandicoot is, because they don’t spend time with native animals,” she said. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The man ran like a bandicoot with its tail cut off! The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z But to my mind not so interesting as the long-nosed bandicoot. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z Later he cuts up "a fig of tobacco;" he says "we can yarn now;" he speaks of living on "wild plums and bandicoot;" and he makes mention of "a certain newchum." Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Zoos Victoria is now trying to use Maremma dogs to reintroduce to the wild the eastern barred bandicoot, a small marsupial not seen outside captivity since 2002. Australia Deploys Sheepdogs to Protect Penguins From Foxes 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z There is an expression in Australia, "Blind as a bandicoot." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Then the long-suffering storekeeper stopped credit, and for a while we lived on what we could grow, with scrub turkey, and once or twice bandicoot. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z “And do you for a moment think I am going to be shut up like a bandicoot in a hole, while others fight for life and liberty?” indignantly asked the soldier. The Ruined Cities of Zululand From the context we may fairly infer that this last term is the Australian equivalent of the Western tenderfoot; but who shall explain the meaning of damper and dingoes, cou-ee and bandicoot? Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z No, I guess it would only be bandicoots, an' the like o' that you'd find about her; an' birds, maybe. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Finn would have been delighted, really, to make friends with creatures like the bandicoot people, and to enjoy their society at intervals--when he was well fed. Finn The Wolfhound The bandicoot is as large as a rabbit. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia They brought back an ample supply, with the addition of a wallaby and a bandicoot. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers I saw two or three small kangaroos, and everywhere along the margin were bandicoot holes, where the little pig-like creatures had been digging for roots. "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 No others of the indigenous quadrupeds are usually used for food, although occasionally bushmen eat the wombat and echidna, and, more rarely, the bandicoots and kangaroo rats. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Finn brought rabbits to the camp every day, with occasional bandicoots, and in the evening, sometimes, a kangaroo-rat. Finn The Wolfhound There is also a rat-like animal with a swinish face, covered with ruddy coarse hair, that burrows in the ground—the bandicoot. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia We have a bit of garden close by, and the confounded bandicoots and paddymelons ravage it at nights, and she has just been knocking some over. Tom Gerrard These are named after the great bandicoot rat of India, to which the early settlers fancied they bore a resemblance. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Then bandicoots and porcupines burrow under them and bring them to the ground, while kites and crows sit on the wires and weigh them down. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables Half an hour later he killed a fat bandicoot, who was engaged at that moment in killing a tiny marsupial mouse. Finn The Wolfhound The bandicoot is the size of a large rat, of a dark brown colour; it feeds upon roots, and its flesh is good eating. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Wild pigs and tigers scratched their skins against the posts in the jungle, and porcupines and bandicoots burrowed them out of the ground. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 In some parts of the country, as for instance Fort St. George in Madras, Government used to pay a reward of one anna for every bandicoot killed within the walls. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The Dilbi totems, which may belong to either of the classes, are kangaroo, opossum and iguana; those of Kupathin are emu, bandicoot and black snake. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia Some of its relatives, such as the bandicoot, are like rats, or like bears, as in the case of the wombat. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope The bandicoots are good eating even for Europeans, and in my opinion are the only Australian mammals fit to eat. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia There was a strange man approaching rapidly, and the bandicoot's courage collapsed. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned When irritated it utters a low grunting cry, like the bandicoot. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon These nets were laid by the natives in narrow channels to catch fish, as well as in the tracks of small animals, such as rats and bandicoots, for the purpose of trapping them. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 We left old Norah in the second paddock, looking as miserable as a bandicoot. A Little Bush Maid He supposed it to be the bandicoot rat. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant I soon discovered tracks of the bandicoot, but they had taken the shape of a small human foot. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Fig and Jezebel, always intimate friends, were hunting for bandicoots--animals less than a kangaroo-rat--which abounded in the bank below our dwelling. The Bushman — Life in a New Country We then rode up to the camp, and found their dinner ready, consisting of two eggs of the brush turkey, roasted opossums, bandicoots, and iguanas. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Let it never be said," he exclaimed, "that the unconquerable hearts of puddin'-owners quailed before a parrot, a hedgehog, or a bandicoot. The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff "Had bandicoot once for me Christmas dinner," Dan informed us, making extra tea "on account of 'Lot's wife'" taking a bit of "washing down." We of the Never-Never To all the early settlers in the bush the bandicoot is well known. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The result was an iguana, a bandicoot, three opossums, and some "sugar bags" or wild honey nests. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Charley got a probably new species of bandicoot, with longer ears than the common one, and with white paws. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Let hedgehogs deaf go delve and dig, Immune from loudest howl, Let bandicoots lump melons big, Let peevish parrots prowl. The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff This she followed until she reached the so-called bandicoot's nest. Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies I turned toward the hut suspiciously, and saw the bandicoot sitting on a top-rail, watching me, and dangling her feet to and fro. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned At night, on camping, a "bandicoot gunyah" was erected, and covered with the broad pliable paper bark of the melaleuca, which made a snug shelter for the night from the still pouring rain. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland We did not see any kangaroos, but got a kangaroo rat and a bandicoot. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 That Van Diemen's Land bush would starve a bandicoot, and Shiner and I walked two days before we knocked the boy on the head; the lad was getting beat, and couldn't a' gone much further. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn "Now we will go," they said, "and tell our husband that we have found a big bandicoot's nest." Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies I went nearer to inspect her bandicoot feet. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Lakoff mentions the Dyirbal language of Australia where the category balan includes fire, dangerous things, women, birds, and animals such as platypus, bandicoot, and echidna. The Civilization of Illiteracy We caught a bandicoot with two young ones, which gave us an excellent luncheon. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The bandicoot is a species of marsupial animal which could outwit the European fox, and give him lessons in pillaging poultry yards. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant Goonur, the husband, affected to believe their sorrow was genuine, and that they did not know when they directed him to the bandicoot's nest that it was a trap. Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies But there were mosquitos in millions, bandicoots hopping close to the fire, and monkey-bears, night hawks, owls, 'possums and dingoes, holding a corroboree hideous enough to break the sleep of the dead. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned There is a great variety of rats in Ceylon, from the tiny shrew to the large "bandicoot". Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Father used to set snares for the brush kangaroo and the bandicoots, like he'd been used to do for the hares in the old country. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields No bandicoot ever went into his hole with the dogs after him quicker than Jim came out of his. Joe Wilson and His Mates They too, as I was, were deceived by the bandicoot's nest, the work of an enemy yet to be found. Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies |
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