lark

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /lɑːk/    美 /lɑɹk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
  2. A frolic or romp, some fun.
    — ‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’
  3. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
  4. A prank.
    — doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening suddenly] What a lark!
  5. One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks. broadly
  6. A jolly or peppy person.
    — Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
动词 v.
  1. To catch larks (a type of bird). intransitive
    — to go larking
  2. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
    — [T]hey laugh at us old boys,” thought old Pendennis. And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone—the gay young men “larked” him irreverently […]
  3. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

词形变化

larks plural laverock alternative lavrock alternative larks present,singular,third-person larking participle,present larked participle,past larked past laverock alternative lavrock alternative larks plural laverock alternative lavrock alternative larks present,singular,third-person larking participle,present larked participle,past larked past laverock alternative lavrock alternative

词汇关系

近义词
whim especially in phrase on a whim
衍生词
Beesley's lark bushlark calandra lark crested lark day lark gay as a lark greater short-toed lark happy as a lark hoopoe-lark horned lark lark bunting lark buttonquail larker larkheel larklike lark-plover lark's-heel lark sparrow larkspur lark's tongue magpie-lark meadowlark mudlark pink-billed lark rise with the lark rising lark sand lark scribble lark sea lark shore lark shorelark skylark songlark sparrow-lark titlark torrent-lark up with the lark woodlark writing lark blow this for a lark fuck this for a lark larkish larksome larky on a lark screw this for a lark sod this for a lark lark about lark around larkingly
相关词
skylark

词源

词源 1
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
词源 2
Uncertain, either
* from a northern English dialectal term lake /laik (“to play”) (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
* a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature”).
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