他对这个理论的热情是显而易见的,直到我请他告诉我他是如何发明鸥翼的。
His passion for the theory was clear, until I asked him to tell me how he had invented the gull wings.
贼鸥是身手敏捷,长有叉状长尾的黑鸟。
当地的海鸥会贪婪地扑向这些施舍的食物,而燕鸥会继续飞行。
While local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts, the tern flies on.
岛上栖息着各种各样的海鸟和滨鸟,包括濒危的褐鹈鹕、最小燕鸥和笛鸻。
A variety of seabirds and shorebirds inhabit the islands, including the endangered brown pelican, least tern, and piping plover.
北极燕鸥是真正的长途迁徙者,它们在北欧沿海湿地筑巢,但会向南飞行数千英里,在南极洲度过欧洲的冬季。
Arctic terns, being true long-distance migrants, they nest in coastal wetlands of northern Europe but fly south for thousands of miles to spend the European winters in Antarctica.
当他们让一只燕鸥或鹈鹕扔下一条鱼时,他们会一头栽到水里,然后把鱼从水面抓起来,这可能就是这只鸟被油弄脏的原因。
When they get a tern or pelican to drop a fish, they plunge down and grab it off the surface of the water, which may have been how this bird got oiled.
北极燕鸥在从南美洲的最南端飞往北极圈的路线全长2万公里,但燕鸥这一路上都不会留意观鸟船送来的散发臭味却又可口的鲱鱼。
An arctic tern, on its 20,000 km flight from the extreme south of South America to the Arctic circle, will take no notice of a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher's boat along the way.
北极燕鸥之所以能不受这一分神因素影响,是因为那时它被一种本能感觉所驱动着,这种本能令人类十分钦佩,它叫做:“更远大的目标”。
The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose.
一只黑头鸥在英国伦敦议会两院前方飞行着。
A black-headed gull flies in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, England.
除了鸥翼之外,他还举出很多例子说明这个过程。
He cites many examples of this process in addition to the gull wings.
风把一只喜鹊抛向远处,一只黑背鸥。
现在他已经记不起来是从哪里采用了鸥翼的概念。
Now, he couldn't remember adapting the gull-wing concept from any other source.
海豚将她团团围住,野鸥则在她的头顶上空盘旋。
Round and round her swam the dolphins, and the wild gulls wheeled above her head.
这只红嘴鸥径直向我飞来。
在春季,北极燕鸥沿着曲折的路线返回格陵兰群岛。
Arctic terns also follow a zigzagging route on their spring trips back to Greenland.
我们都见过鸥或乌鸦在最后的猛扑前向地面危险地俯冲的样子。
We've all seen gulls or crows diving precariously toward the ground before swooping up at the last moment.
由于鸥群的混乱,弗莱契关于发生战斗的预言没有应验。
Fletcher's predictions of battle melted in the Flock's confusion.
本地鸥会贪婪地冲向这些施舍,而北极燕鸥却会继续往前飞。
Local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts, while the tern flies on.
在本世纪初消失已久的凤头燕鸥为人们再次发现,这真是可喜可贺。
The rediscovery earlier this decade of the Chinese crested tern, long thought extinct, was cause for celebration.
说不定,也会有那么一只海鸥因为对鸥群讲出了真理,结果成了弃儿。
Perhaps there might even have been one made Outcast for speaking his truth in the face of the Flock.
愤怒的小鸟被绑架了,但他们得以逃脱并去营救他们的朋友布鲁和朱鸥。
The Angry Birds have been kidnapped, but escape to save their friends Blu and Jewel.
可是今天呢,他正在建造自己的天堂,并领导整个鸥群朝着这个方向前进。
And here he is today building his own heaven instead, and leading the whole Flock in that direction.
这只极轻的机器鸟灵感来源于银鸥,可以自主起降飞行,无需借助于另外的驱动系统。
Dubbed the SmartBird, the ultralight flying robot was inspired by the herring gull and can take off, fly and land autonomously, without the help of any additional drive systems.
在鸭鸥亭,一做完整形手术就带着面罩和太阳镜去逛专卖店的美眉不在少数。
In Apgujeong, it is not hard to find young women shopping in department stores immediately after their surgeries, wearing masks or sunglasses.
当他们落脚的悬崖发生塌崩时,整群的厚嘴默和黑腿三趾鸥就会被卷入大海。
An entire group of thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes were swept into the ocean when the cliff face they had nested on collapsed.
在第二年的八月,他在大凤头燕鸥的繁殖地发现了很小一堆黑嘴凤头燕鸥的巢。
In August of the second year, he found a handful of Chinese crested terns nesting among a colony of greater crested terns.
他解释到,燕鸥的飞行路线是以大气中螺旋风为根据,他们要尽量避免被风卷走。
The birds appear to be following huge spiraling wind patterns in the atmosphere, avoiding flying into the wind, he said.
上周六,密西西比海湾港的一处沙滩上,一只小燕鸥正在检查自己布满斑点的蛋。
A least tern checks on its rock-colored eggs on a Gulfport, Mississippi (map), beach on Saturday.
上周六,密西西比海湾港的一处沙滩上,一只小燕鸥正在检查自己布满斑点的蛋。
A least tern checks on its rock-colored eggs on a Gulfport, Mississippi (map), beach on Saturday.
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