catbird的意思|catbird的解释-里氏词典

catbird ['kæt`bɚd]

n. 北美猫鸟

Joe enjoys sitting in the catbird seat.
乔享受着他的有利地位。
Claud's appointment as acting dean put him in the catbird seat.
克劳德被任命为代理院长，这使他身价百倍。

catbird

[ noun ]

any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females

<noun.animal>

North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing

<noun.animal>

Catbird \Cat"bird\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
An American bird ({Galeoscoptes Carolinensis}), allied to the
mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of
other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times
the mewing of a cat.

As it happens, the Democrats are in the catbird seat.
"This is the first time American Express has been in the catbird seat since it acquired Shearson back in 1981," he said.
From campaign rival Jesse Jackson to party chairman Paul Kirk, Dukakis won accolades on his Wisconsin landslide. "It puts Dukakis in the catbird seat," said former party chairman John White, a Jackson supporter.
And this keeps the lawmakers in the catbird's seat.
'If that turns out to be true,' says Mr Wayne Booker, Ford's head of international operations, 'the Japanese are sitting in the catbird seat.' Autos apart, the US is being inexorably drawn into the world arena by the growth of world trade.

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