scare·crow /ˈskɛrˌkro, ˈskær-/
稻草人,衣衫襤褸的人
Scare·crow n.
1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. --Dryden.
2. A person clad in rags and tatters.
No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. --Shak.
3. Zool. The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
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scarecrow
n : an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from
seeds [syn: straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer]