lark
noun /lɑːk/
/lɑːrk/
Idioms - a small brown bird with a pleasant song
百灵鸟；云雀 - [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。
- for a lark The boys didn't mean any harm—they just did it for a lark.
- (British English, informal) (used after another noun
用于另一名词后 （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。
- Perhaps this riding lark would be more fun than she'd thought.
词源noun 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
- (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)
- (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。
- Sod that for a lark! I'm not doing any more tonight.