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pecking

/ˈpɛkɪŋ/ 名词 C2

中文: 啄、琢石法

  1. The act by which something is pecked. (countable, uncountable) · the peckings of hungry chickens
  2. The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks. (countable, uncountable)

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Always pecking at new things are the Bandar-log.
《The Jungle Book》,第40页 · B2
But when one day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks.
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第69页 · B2
This rabbit dead, the Abbé Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill is a hen, who, pecking these intestines, is in her turn taken ill, and dies next day.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第530页 · C1

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