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A large number of birds received their names through the imitation of their cries. The cuckoo is an obvious example of such an onomatopoeic naming, and so are the owl, the cockatiel, and many more. Some bird names, however, have a more intriguing linguistic history.
许多禽鸟的英文名都是通过模拟叫声得来，布谷鸟就是一个很明显的例子，猫头鹰、澳洲鹦鹉等等也是如此。但是，有一些禽鸟的名字背后则有着十分有趣的故事。
Magpie喜鹊
The magpie was earlier known as the maggoty-pie or maggot-the-pie, of which magpie is probably a shortening. Here, maggot, or later mag, is an obsolete pet-form of the female forenames Margery and Margaret. The second element, pie, derives from Latin pica, itself meaning ‘magpie’. It is also related to picus, which is the Latin name for the green woodpecker.
喜鹊早前被叫做maggoty-pie和maggot-the-pie，因此magpie很有可能只是它们的缩写。这里的maggot和后来的mag都是旧时的动物名，相当于女性名字Margery以及Margaret。第二部分pie来自于拉丁词语pica，这个词本意就是“喜鹊”。Pie还与picus有关，这个词是绿啄木鸟的拉丁名。
It is possible that picus also gave us the other pie, as in the baked pastry dish, perhaps alluding to the magpie’s habit of collecting random objects in **parison to a pie’s various ingredients.
很有可能picus这个词衍生出了另一个pie的含义，即我们所说的烘烤类面点“派”。也许这是暗指喜鹊有收集东西的习惯，就像派上有各类的食材。
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