名詞 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
   同義詞：Little Dipper
3. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
   同義詞：Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon
4. small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
   同義詞：bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela albeola
5. small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
   同義詞：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.
   我同意帶孩子們?nèi)ビ螛穲?，但無論他們怎樣試圖說服我，我也拒絕乘坐游樂場慣性車道; 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.
   北極星第二星的光度中的一顆星，位于小熊星座把柄的末端，幾乎位于北天極
3. Can you see the Great Dipper?
   你能看到北斗七星嗎？

dip.per

n.（名詞）
One that dips, especially a container for taking up water.
舀水的用具：浸入的東西，特別是用盛水的容器
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
河烏：一種河烏 屬的小鳥，善于潛入緩流的小溪，并沿底部覓食 也作 在此意義上也可稱作 water ouzel