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cuckoo clock

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ˈcuckoo clock noun [countable]  TMCa clock with a wooden bird inside that comes out every hour and makes a sound 布谷鸟自鸣钟〔钟内有木制小鸟,每小时出现并报时〕
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cuckoo clockBeside the portrait was a carved cuckoo clock with green ivy and purple grapes growing around a green front door.There was a grotesque inventiveness, a deliberate eccentricity in the idea of the cuckoo clock that Melanie had never encountered.Melanie and Aunt Margaret sat in complete silence but for the ponderous ticking of the cuckoo clock and its regular two note interjections.The cuckoo clock spun round and round.
ˈcuckoo clock nounChineseSyllable
a Corpus comes inside every out wooden that bird with a clock


cuckoo clock
ˈcuckoo clock noun [countable]
a clock with a wooden bird inside that comes out every hour and makes a sound


cuckoo clockBrE /ˈkʊkuː klɒk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkʊkuː klɑːk/ 🔊 nouna clock that has a small toy bird inside that comes out every hour and marks the hours with a sound like that of a cuckoo 布谷鸟自鸣钟(钟内有小玩具鸟每个整点出现,报时声似布谷鸟叫声)