英:[tɜ:n]
美:[tɜrn]
英:[tɜ:n]
美:[tɜrn]
复数:terns
词根:tern
adj.ternate 三出的;三个一套的;三个的
n.ternion 三个一组;三合一
noun
any of various aquatic birds similar and related to gulls but smaller and slenderer, usu. having a black cap and a long forked tail.
"类似海鸥的海鸟(亚科 Sterninae),1670年代,通过东安格利亚方言,源自斯堪的纳维亚语(比较丹麦语 terne,瑞典语 tärna,法罗语 terna),与古诺尔斯语 þerna “tern”(也是“女仆”的意思)相关,与古英语 stearn 同源。
三个一组
of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish terne tern
The first known use of tern was in 1678
ternnoun
any of numerous sea birds that often have a forked tail, black cap, and white or gray body and that in comparison to the related gulls have a smaller and slenderer body and bill and narrower wings
1 Along Beaufort Inlet, Ron points out terns, brown pelicans, and egrets, along with wild island ponies on Shackleford Banks, a strip of sand pointing to Cape Lookout's diamond-patterned lighthouse on the horizon.
2 They swung around and above, the tern dæmon keeping close like a child to its mother, and watched the steersman adjust the course slightly as the foghorn boomed again.
3 The spring tern begins on monday of this week.
春学期在这星期的星期一开始。
4 One grassy, bushy section hosts a plethora of cattle egrets, snowy egrets and great blue herons; another, a bounty of least terns and common terns.
5 As the balloon began to move in that direction, Pantalaimon came to perch on the edge of the basket as a tern.
6 The ropes and flagging, you can see from the resort, have been used successfully on other islands making the island undesirable for terns to nest.
7 Experimental results indicate that both methods are precise and reliable approaches for identification of flow pat - tern transition.
实验结果证明,这两种方法都能够准确、可靠地用来判断滴流床中流动形态的变化。
8 Located within the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge, the Salt Works temporarily closes during the terns’ nesting season.
9 Sleek black loons, herring gulls, harlequin ducks and oldsquaw dive at the fish on the surface, and eagles, falcons, terns and plovers glide above.
10 Another tern passed overhead, then another, and another.
11 And I saw some terns feeding over the sandbar.
12 Overhead, terns and Cape pigeons wheeled, and a giant snow petrel flew on snow-white wings; the birds were a sure sign that open water was near.
13 We walked along beside the lake and saw the swans and the many gulls and terns that flew up when you came close and screamed while they looked down at the water.
14 “You know,” she said, “if I close my eyes, I could almost be an Arctic tern flying over the water.”
15 Terns now dive in to catch their share.
现在轮到燕鸥俯冲猎取属于它们的一份.
16 I walk on the beachwhere the nests of common terns driven upwind to breedare marked with red flags mounted on popsicle sticks,hundreds of them, bunting in the wind.
17 Serrano also won 1st Place in the "Wildlife" category with "Acrobatic Feeding," an amazing photographic "catch" of a hovering tern feeding a dragonfly to its chicks.
18 Ber tern opened a door marked NO ADMITTANCE.
波恩司坦打开了门,门上写着“闲人莫入”.
19 I was awake with a flashlight and drawing the tern’s feathers again, the way they were supposed to be.
20 Birds of the North Sea vary in size and shape from large herring gulls to tiny terns.
2 多种
Brown rail copper prominent deer dolphin cricket flea sucker cockroach laurel leech quail pheasant plurality plantain sparrow partridge bedbug mantis vole mongoose parakeet mayfly softshell winkle shearwater gladiolus pufferfish whistler pipit surgeonfish shrike veronica nightjar gurnard buteo tinamou gerbera trogon genista hawkmoth clearwing livebearer manakin prickleback ruby-tail tyrannulet puffbird toucanet pond skater snipe fly sea robin labyrinth fish worm lizard mantis shrimp liver fluke water lily electric ray dog rose root fly bark beetle slipper limpet crane fly storm petrel
3 三个一组
Trinitarian ternary ternal ternion three triple triangle trio trilogy Trinity triad triplet threesome trine triumvirate troika triplex triplicity triunity tripartite