lek

FREQ #42492

n. 列克(阿尔巴尼亚货币单位)

发音

US /lɛk/

词形变化

leks 复数 leku 复数 lekë 复数 lekked lekking leks 三单 lekking 现在分词 lekked 过去式 lekked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.

    生物

    1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, figure caption, 2000, page 333, Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek.

  2. 1.

    The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka.

    列克

    1997, Igor Artimiev, Gary J. Fine, Country Studies: Albania, Ira W. Lieberman, Stilpon S. Nestor, Raj M. Desai, Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies, page 178, Enterprise shares are sold at voucher auctions in exchange for either immaterial privatization leks (through a bank transfer from the bidder's privatization lek account) or through privatization vouchers, which are submitted at the time of bidding.

v.
  1. 1.

    To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek.

    不及物 生物

    2010, Boaz Yuval, Jorge Hendrichs 17: Behavior of Fruit Fly in the Genus Ceratitis (Dacinae: Ceratitidini), Martin Aluja, Allen Norrbom (editors), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior, page 437, In a recent study (Yuval et al. 1998), the size and weight of males captured either lekking or resting at the same time in the vicinity of leks were measured.

  2. 2.

    To play.

    英国 非正式 方言

    T’lads is lekkin i t’park.

词汇关系

名词

部分词 2

qindarka qintar

相关短语

lek paradox

词源

From Germanic roots meaning "play". In the biology sense, it comes specifically from Swedish lek (“child's play”), by means of Swedish leka (“to play”). The verb is first attested in English in 1871 and the noun at least as early as 1867.

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