pied

英 [paɪd]

美 [paɪd]

adj.  黑白双色的; 多色的; 杂色的

复数：pieds　

GRE

BNC.17070 / COCA.22433

牛津词典

adj.

• 黑白双色的；多色的；杂色的
  of two or more different colours, especially black and white

英英释义

adj

• having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
  1. a jester dressed in motley
  2. the painted desert
  3. a particolored dress
  4. a piebald horse
  5. pied daisies
  Synonym:motleycalicomulticolormulti-colormulticolourmulti-colourmulticoloredmulti-coloredmulticolouredmulti-colouredpaintedparticoloredparticolouredpiebaldvaricoloredvaricoloured

双语例句

• In recent weeks, an idea has been floated of also charging a so-called pied-à-terre tax for part-time residents who buy expensive properties.
  最近几周，出现了一个新观点，就是要额外征收所谓的临时住所税（pied-à-terretax），其征收对象是购买昂贵房产作为临时住所的住户。
• When in Washington, tourists like to see not only the White House but also the offices of their senators and congressmen& each one of those places being a kind of pied à terre.
  来自全国各地的游客在华盛顿不仅希望游览白宫，还要看一看来自家乡的参议员和众议员的办公室&对于其主人而言，这些地方都只是短暂的落脚点。
• When the people of Hamelin, Germany had a problem with rats, they called the Pied Piper.
  当德国哈默尔恩的人们遇上鼠疫的难题，他们请来了一个花衣魔笛手。
• Pertinence Analysis of Nest Site Selection of Pied Magpie and Urban Green Space
  喜鹊营巢特征与城市绿地环境相关性研究
• First appeared at age3 in film Pied Piper Malone ( 1924) with his father.
  首次出现在3岁在电影花衣马龙（1924）与他的父亲。
• But when the people of Hamelin refused to pay the Pied Piper what they had promised, he turned his entrancing music on their children, leading them away to never be seen again.
  但当哈默尔恩的人们拒绝兑现承诺向魔笛手支付报酬时，魔笛手转而向他们的孩子们奏起迷乐，引孩子们出走，不再出现。
• Miniature robots can act like Pied Pipers to lead cockroaches into shelters that they would not normally visit.
  有一种迷你机器人，它就象童话里的花衣风笛手，能把蟑螂引到它们通常不会去的栖息所。
• C. We should be alert to the possibility that individuals, organizations or governments tend to pied a worthy goal in excuse of their contemptible means and selfish interests.
  我们应当警惕这种可能性，个人、组织、政府以高尚的目标作为他们卑鄙手段和私利的借口。
• For the discerning global plutocrat, a lavish London pied-à-terre has long been a necessity.
  豪华伦敦的居所，长期以来一直是有眼力的全球富豪的必需品。
• Steve was in his ultimate pied piper mode, proclaiming how the Mac will change the world and overworking people like mad, with incredible tensions and complex personal relationships.
  史蒂夫火力全开，狂开空头支票，放言麦金塔将改变世界，疯狂地让手下员工加班再加班。公司里的气氛非常紧张，人际关系也很复杂。