weather cock 中文意思是什麼

weather cock 解釋
定風計
  • weather : n 1 天氣,氣候;暴風雨(天氣)。2 (某種)時候;處境;狀況。vt 1 使暴露在風雨中;通風,晾乾,吹乾...
  • cock : n 1 雄雞,公雞。2 雄禽。 ★有時與其他動物名連用;表示雄性。3 雄螯蝦[蟹、鮭]。4 野鷸〈= wood cock...
  1. A weather cock and an artful person, he spoke a lot of beautiful words to please people.

    他這個人,見風使舵,八面玲瓏,說了不少使大家高興的話。
  2. As soon as they saw the imperial weather - cock shifting to one quarter the whole swarm of these drones began buzzing away in the direction, making it more difficult for the tsar to shift his course back again

    這一派的所有人都在撈取盧布勛章和官位。在這種追逐中只隨著帝王恩寵的風向標轉動,只要一發現風向標指向那一方向,結果卻更難把風向標扭向另一方。
  3. I felt the church jumped over its own weather-cock.

    我覺得整個教堂一躍而起,跳得比屋頂上的風信雞還要高。
  4. There, indeed, was each former trace of the street, as he remembered it, and all the peculiarities of the houses, with the due multitude of gable - peaks, and a weather - cock at every point where his memory suggested one

    確實,那裡還有那條街道的每一個原有的痕跡,這和他記憶中的是一致的,而房舍的各個獨特之處,諸如眾多的山墻,各個尖頂上都有的風信雞,凡是他記得的都應有盡有。
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