larks

英 [lɑːks]

美 [lɑːrks]

n.  百灵鸟; 云雀; 嬉戏; 玩乐; 玩笑; (认为)浪费时间的活动; 不受重视的活动
v.  嬉耍; 玩乐（与about连用）; 愚弄
lark的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 百灵鸟；云雀
  Alarkis a small brown bird which makes a pleasant sound.
• N-COUNT （可能带有淘气或危险性质的）玩乐，玩耍，嬉戏
  If you say that doing something is alark, you mean that it is fun, although perhaps naughty or dangerous.
  1. The children thought it was a great lark...
     孩子们以为这很好玩。
  2. The chances are that the thief will be under 21 and doing it for a lark...
     偷东西的很可能是个不到21岁的年轻人，干这事儿只是贪玩。
  3. He'd made it seem rather a lark, to be visiting a supposedly haunted house.
     他把到一间据说闹鬼的屋子探访说得好像多有意思似的。
• N-COUNT （用于幽默地表示好笑、愚蠢或多余）演戏这玩意儿/耍笔杆子这一行
  You uselarkin expressions such asthis acting larkandthe writing larkto indicate humorously that you think an activity or job is amusing, foolish, or unnecessary.
  1. He got the part, and eventually decided the acting lark wasn't half bad.
     他赢得了那个角色，一番考虑后觉得演戏这玩意儿感觉也还不错。

双语例句

• Four Larks and a Wren.
  一只蒙鸠，四只百灵。
• Only about seven per cent of young adults are morning larks, while by age 60 most people preferred to be up with the dawn.
  青年人中只有7%的人是早起鸟，而到了60岁，大部分人都喜欢在黎明起床。
• A peasant and his family were working in a little field beneath the singing larks.
  有个农民一家人正在一小块地里干活，头顶上就有云雀在歌唱。
• Maybe if she heard the larks sing she'd write.
  玛丽听到云雀的歌声也许会写信的。
• Other studies have found morning larks tend to be harder working and conscientious than night owls.
  其他研究也发现，早起鸟比夜猫子更努力更自觉。
• None of your twittering larks, of a banished nightingale from my garden before they interrupt her song.
  胜过每一只婉转的云雀，听了她的歌声，夜莺也会羞惭的从花园中飞走。
• But surely the larks no longer sang happily.
  但是不用说，云雀唱得也不欢了。
• The larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened. In my young heart, my mother was strong and healthy, and never got sick.
  百灵鸟沉默了，幼树的嫩芽也被打得发黑。在我幼小的心灵中，妈妈强壮健康，永远不会生病。
• Research suggests there are biological differences between early larks, who wake up at the same time every morning and feel most active around 9 AM, and night owls, who get more stuff done once the sun goes down.
  研究表明，早起鸟和夜猫子在生物上有着很多区别。早起鸟每天早上同一时间清醒，上午9：00时大脑最为活跃；而夜猫子的办事效率则在太阳落山后更高。
• The sky was blue, the larks were soaring high over the green corn, I thought all that country-side more beautiful and peaceful by far than I had ever known it to be yet.
  蓝蓝的天空，云雀在绿色的谷地上空翱翔，噢，如今的乡间比以往我曾生活过的乡间更加美丽，更加，更加平静。