petrel
音标['petrәl]
汉语翻译
n. 海燕
英语解释
名词 petrel:
- relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land
例句
- Sinclair Lewis was stormy petrel in his life as in his books.辛克莱。刘易斯在他的生活中也像他的书中一样是个制造麻烦的人。
详细解释
pet.rel
n.（名词）Any of numerous black, gray, or white sea birds of the order Procellariiformes, especially the storm petrel.海燕：属鹱形目中的一种黑色、灰色或白色的海鸟，尤指海燕
来源：Perhaps alteration perhaps influenced by Saint Peter walking on the water, from the fact that the bird flies so close to the water as to appear to be walking on the water 可能为 可能受圣 Peter从水面走过的影响，源自鸟如此接近水面地飞过，好象在水面上走一样 of earlier pitteral 较早期 pitteral的变化
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