Peck

(noun.) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches.

(noun.) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.

(verb.) eat by pecking at, like a bird.

(verb.) hit lightly with a picking motion.

恩里克录入

• The district selected for lighting was the area--nearly a square mile in extent--included between Wall, Nassau, Spruce, and Ferry Streets, Peck Slip and the East River in New York City. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The old lady likes me, and I'll be as sweet as possible to her, so she won't peck at us, whatever we do. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He had known, to use his words, a peck of trouble. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• So much the more necessairy is a Peck,' returned Riderhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Don't peck at one another, children. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Why, said Joe, yes, there certainly were a peck of orange-peel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A chick, for example, pecks accurately at a bit of food in a few hours after hatching. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• That's worth millions of money and pecks of praise. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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