albatross
外观
albatross 信天翁,信天翁科(Diomedeidae)的大型远洋海鸟。
词类
名词 (Noun)
词意
信天翁属于鹱形目信天翁科(Diomedeidae),全球共有4属约22种。信天翁拥有所有鸟类中最大的翼展,漂泊信天翁(Diomedea exulans)的翼展可达3.5米。它们采用动力滑翔飞行方式,利用海面的上升气流长时间滑翔而不需要频繁拍翅。信天翁的大部分时间在海洋上空度过,只有在繁殖期才回到陆地上。它们实行一夫一妻制,繁殖周期极长,一对亲鸟每隔一年才能成功抚育一只雏鸟。
读音
- IPA: /ˈælbətrɒs/
变形
- 复数:albatrosses
例句
- The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, reaching up to 3.5 meters from tip to tip.(漂泊信天翁的翼展是所有现存鸟类中最大的,可达3.5米)
- Albatrosses use dynamic soaring to travel thousands of kilometers across the ocean without flapping their wings.(信天翁一次飞行可环绕地球一圈而不落地)
- Albatrosses have salt glands above their nasal passages that excrete excess salt from seawater they drink.(信天翁的鼻腔有特殊的脱盐腺,可排出摄入海水中的盐分)
- Plastic pollution poses a severe threat to albatrosses, which mistake floating debris for food and feed it to their chicks.(许多信天翁物种由于误食塑料碎片而面临生存威胁)
- The phrase an albatross around one's neck originates from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.("脖子上的信天翁"在英语中意为沉重的负担或精神枷锁)