cricket
n. 蟋蟀, 板球
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An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
蟋蟀
土狗仔
杜猴
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An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
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A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
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An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
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A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
板球
木球
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An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
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A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
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A wooden footstool.
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A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
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To play the game of cricket.
不及物 罕用Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
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From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin. Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.
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