weathercock

n. 风标, 随风倒的人

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词形变化

weathercocks 复数 weathercocks weathercocked weathercocking weathercocks 三单 weathercocking 现在分词 weathercocked 过去式 weathercocked 过去分词

别名

weather cock

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

    风标

  2. 2.

    One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

    比喻
  3. 3.

    A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.

    加拿大 美国
v.
  1. 1.

    To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To act as a weathercock for.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

vane weather vane wind vane

词源

From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.

来源：wiktionary