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lark

noun
🔊/lɑːk/
🔊/lɑːrk/
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  1. a small brown bird with a pleasant song百灵鸟；云雀 see also skylarkTopics Birdsc2
  2. [usually singular] (informal) a thing that you do for fun or as a joke嬉戏；玩乐；玩笑
    • for a lark The boys didn't mean any harm—they just did it for a lark.那些男孩并无恶意，他们只是闹着玩罢了。🔊🔊
  3. (British English, informal) (used after another noun用于另一名词后) an activity that you think is a waste of time or that you do not take seriously（认为）浪费时间的活动；不受重视的活动
    • Perhaps this riding lark would be more fun than she'd thought.也许这次骑马的无聊活动比她所想象的要好玩一些。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originnoun sense 1 and be/​get up with the lark. Old English lāferce, lǣwerce; related to Dutch leeuwerik and German Lerche; of unknown ultimate origin. noun senses 2 to 3 and blow/​sod that for a lark. early 19th cent.: perhaps from dialect lake ‘play’, from Old Norse leika, but compare with skylark in the same sense, which is recorded earlier.
Idioms
be/get up with the lark
  1. (British English, old-fashioned) to get out of bed very early in the morning清晨早起；鸡鸣即起
blow that for a lark
(also taboo sod that for a lark)
  1. (British English, slang) used by somebody who does not want to do something because it involves too much effort（因太费力而不想干时说）
    • Sod that for a lark! I'm not doing any more tonight.拉倒吧！我今晚再也不做了。🔊🔊

lark

verb
🔊/lɑːk/
🔊/lɑːrk/
Word Originverb early 19th cent.: perhaps from dialect lake ‘play’, from Old Norse leika, but compare with skylark in the same sense, which is recorded earlier.
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they lark
🔊/lɑːk/
🔊/lɑːrk/
he / she / it larks
🔊/lɑːks/
🔊/lɑːrks/
past simple larked
🔊/lɑːkt/
🔊/lɑːrkt/
past participle larked
🔊/lɑːkt/
🔊/lɑːrkt/
-ing form larking
🔊/ˈlɑːkɪŋ/
🔊/ˈlɑːrkɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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