budgerigar

IPA/ˈbʌdʒəriɡɑː(r)/
IPA/ˈbʌdʒəriɡɑːr/

budgerigar — 名詞

  • budgerigarsingular
  • budgerigarsplural

1. a cheerful little parrot from Australia with bright green and yellow feathers, p

1.名詞B2
釋義

虎皮鸚鵡

原產澳洲的小型寵物鸚鵡

a cheerful little parrot from Australia with bright green and yellow feathers, popular as a cage bird in homes around the world

例句

Ingrid taught her budgerigar to copy the sound of her doorbell.

Ingrid 教她的虎皮鸚鵡模仿家裡門鈴的聲音。

A bright yellow budgerigar hopped onto Karim's finger and chirped softly.

一隻鮮黃色的虎皮鸚鵡跳到 Karim 的手指上，輕聲啾鳴。

常見搭配
  • keep a budgerigar
  • breed budgerigars
  • a cage of budgerigars
  • a budgerigar chirps
  • a budgerigar whistles
  • a flock of wild budgerigars
同義詞
  • budgie

    the everyday informal name; the natural choice in speech

  • parakeet

    a broader term for any small long-tailed parrot; every budgerigar is a parakeet but the reverse is not true

  • shell parakeet

    an older alternative name, now rarely used

用法筆記

In everyday speech this bird is nearly always called a budgie. The full word budgerigar is mostly used in formal writing, pet-shop signs, or scientific contexts.

常見錯誤

We saw a budgerigar at the zoo — it was huge and bright red.
We saw a macaw at the zoo. Budgerigars are small and mostly green and yellow.
budgerigars are tiny parrots with distinctive green-and-yellow bodies; large colourful parrots belong to different species.

同根字

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • budgerigar cage
  • budgerigar seed
  • budgerigar breeder
  • budgerigar chick

常用片語

  • a flock of budgerigars
  • a pair of budgerigars