Magpie

(noun.) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call.

(noun.) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others.

海伦娜编辑

• If you just go to the Magpie and Stump, and ask at the bar for Mr. Lowten, they'll show you in to him, and he's Mr. Perker's clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I suppose so,' returned Bella; 'I look in the glass often enough, and I chatter like a Magpie. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He might as well have provided them for a squirrel or a magpie. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He was a chatterer, a magpie, a maker of mischievous word-jokes, that were sometimes very clever, but which often were not. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I'm at low-water-mark myself--only one bob and a magpie; but, as far as it goes, I'll fork out and stump. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• You are to understand, said Mr. Bucket, that this gentleman he come into Krook's property, and a good deal of magpie property there was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He was own brother to a brimstone magpie--leastways Mrs. Smallweed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• So, to the Three Magpies as before: where Mrs Boffin and Miss Bella were handed out, and whence they all went on foot to Mrs Betty Higden's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

编辑:纳内特