dipper

名词 dipper:

1. a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
2. a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
   同义词：Little Dipper
3. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
   同义词：Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon
4. small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
   同义词：bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela albeola
5. small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
   同义词：water ouzel

1. I agreed to take the children to the fair, but I refused to ride on the big dipper no matter how much they tried to persuade me; after all, you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.
   我同意带孩子们去游乐场，但无论他们怎样试图说服我，我也拒绝乘坐游乐场惯性车道; 不要逼人做他不愿意做的事。
2. A star of the second magnitude, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper and almost at the north celestial pole.
   北极星第二星的光度中的一颗星，位于小熊星座把柄的末端，几乎位于北天极
3. Can you see the Great Dipper?
   你能看到北斗七星吗？

dip.per

n.（名词）
One that dips, especially a container for taking up water.
舀水的用具：浸入的东西，特别是用盛水的容器
One of several small birds of the genusCinclus that dive into swift-moving streams and feed along the bottom. Also called In this sense, also called water ouzel
河乌：一种河乌 属的小鸟，善于潜入缓流的小溪，并沿底部觅食 也作 在此意义上也可称作 water ouzel