| 釋義 |
dawn.
1.jackdaw. crow寒鴉，烏鴉。
△Tw.3.4.39 (35): “Atyour request! Yes. nightingales answer daws.” i.e.Must I answer the request of a serving-girl? Indeed.nightingales should answer the calls of crows. 要我回答你的問題嗎？ 不錯，夜鶯應(yīng)該回答烏鴉的叫聲。
△Oth.1.1.64: “But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve ╱ Fordaws to peck at: I am not what I am.”我就會把我的心掛在袖子上讓烏鴉來啄了；那么我也就不是我自己了(又譯：我不是我表面上這樣的一個人)。
2. jackdaw,i.e.foolish bird,simpleton寒鴉，（轉(zhuǎn)義）呆鳥，傻瓜。
△Ado.2.3.275 (254): “just so much (pleas-ure) as you may take upon a knife’s point,and chokea daw withal.” 其愉快恰似舉起尖刀來殺死一只呆鳥。
△1H.VI.2.4. 17: “But in these nice sharp quillets ofthe law,╱Good faith. I am no wiser than a daw.”但是對于法律方面這些精確、微妙的差別之處，說老實話，我卻是不比傻瓜更聰明。 |