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.
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.
贼鸥是身手敏捷，长有叉状长尾的黑鸟。
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.
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.
这只红嘴鸥径直向我飞来。
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
对于生活在海岸边的海鸥、燕鸥和鸬鹚来说，选择错误的降落地点将带来致命的后果。
For many gulf coast gulls, terns and cormorants, this has been a lethal mistake.
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.
举例来说，从火地岛前往阿拉斯加的北极燕鸥会无视蒙特利湾观鸟船送出的美味鲱鱼。
An arctic tern on its way from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska, for instance, will ignore a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher's boat in Monterey Bay.
乔纳森，好久前你不是说过，要热爱鸥群；要回到他们之中去，帮助他们学习，你还记得吗？
Jonathan, remember what you said a long time ago, about loving the Flock enough to return to it and help it learn?
我们还见到有些粉红燕鸥向南方飞去，我们感到很奇怪，为什么飞向南方呢，南方并没有陆地。
We also counted several roseate terns flying south - but why south, we wondered, when there is no land that way?
但对于动物和鸟类爱好者来说，这里有无数的企鹅，海鸟，燕子，贼鸥和毛皮海狮(一种海豹)。
For animal and bird lovers, there is plenty of action in the form of penguins, sea birds, swallows, skua and fur sea lions (a type of seal).
雌鸟与雌鸟配对在其他鸟类中并不是没有，如加利福尼亚海鸥和粉红燕鸥，但从来没有达到这么高比例。
Female-female pairings have been observed in other birds, such as California gulls and roseate terns, but never at quite such a high rate.
图：绿色线路为秋季燕鸥南迁路线；红色线路为其冬季飞行路线；黄色线路为春季燕鸥北飞路线。
See map at right: Green represents autumn/southward migration; red denotes winter range; and yellow represents spring/northward journey.
北极燕鸥一次往返的距离达3.2万公里，早已离开了我们的燕子现在正在非洲南端享受着太阳的温暖。
The Arctic tern completes a round trip of 32, 000km; swallows, which have already deserted us, will now be sunning themselves in the southern tip of Africa.
北极燕鸥一次往返的距离达3.2万公里，早已离开了我们的燕子现在正在非洲南端享受着太阳的温暖。
The Arctic tern completes a round trip of 32, 000km; swallows, which have already deserted us, will now be sunning themselves in the southern tip of Africa.
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