starlings
美 [?stɑrl??] 
英 [?stɑ?(r)l??]
- n.【鳥】燕八哥；【建】殺水樁；橋墩尖端
- 網絡椋鳥；椋鳥科；白頭翁
詞形變化
復數：starlings
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
"How starlings achieve such a strong correlation remains a mystery to us, " they wrote.
他們寫道：“燕八哥怎樣會實現它們之間如此牢固的相互聯系，對我們來說仍然是一個未解之謎。”
In winter thousands of starlings perform their murmurations round it, banking swiftly and silently in vast helices across the sky.
冬天，成千上萬的八哥在碼頭旁邊盤旋，喃喃嘀咕，排成一排成巨大螺旋形快速而安靜地在天空中飛翔。
Master said: "The starlings do not shit the bed. "
主人說：“八哥別在床上拉屎。”
Several hundred dead red-winged black birds, starlings, sparrows, and grackles have now turned up in Louisiana near Baton Rouge.
路易斯安那巴吞魯日附近出現數百只死亡的紅翅黑鳥、椋鳥、麻雀和白頭翁。
Collisions with power lines seem to have killed roughly 500 blackbirds and starlings in Louisiana on Tuesday.
據瑞典國家獸醫學院稱，周二在路易斯安那州約有5百只黑鸝和歐洲椋鳥死于與電力線路發生碰撞。
It seemed as if the starlings had been hypnotised because they acted as if they were not being chased.
椋鳥看似精神恍惚，因此它們的舉動像沒人追趕一樣。
Thousands of the starlings earlier this month forced a Ryanair passenger jet to make an emergency landing at the city's Ciampino airport.
這個月初，成千上萬的歐掠鳥曾害一架愛爾蘭瑞恩航空的客機緊急迫降在羅馬的項比諾機場。
When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.
對于和這些椋鳥或者魚一樣，弱小而易受傷害的生物，群居或者去迷惑捕食者確實是一種有用的策略。
And starlings actually appear to be innocent in the case of the missing bluebirds.
實際上，藍知更鳥的數量減少和椋鳥并沒有關系。
At sunset, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus are often filled with the noise of thousands of starlings .
黃昏時分，特拉法爾加廣場和皮卡迪利廣場回蕩著數千只鳥飛翔的噪音。
There was not a sound but the starlings, wheeling and flocking, wheeling and turning over the edge of Afghanistan.
那里一點聲音也沒有，只有歐掠鳥成群在阿富汗邊際來來回回盤旋。
"We may need some of the American starlings to be returned, " Gregory jokes.
“我們可能需要從美國引回一些椋鳥。”格雷戈里打趣說。
To makematters worse, starlings spread diseases that infect both humans andlivestock, costing a further $800 million a year in healthcare.
更嚴重的是，椋鳥會傳播既感染人類又感染家畜的疾病，每年在醫療保健上增加八億美元的費用。
The starlings would launch out of the yard and into the air as one.
椋鳥會從院子中一起飛向天空。
Granted, I've only mentioned baboons and starlings, but there you've got a mammalian representative and an avian one.
雖然我只是提到了狒狒和八哥，但是它們是哺乳動物和禽類的代表。
A murmuration of starlings -- even the word sounds great.
壯麗的椋鳥群——即使就這么一個字眼聽起來也棒極了
He and his colleagues suspect that pesticides and the loss of pastureland have eliminated many insects on which starlings feed.
格雷戈里和他的同事認為是殺蟲劑以及牧場的減少使很多椋鳥賴以生存的昆蟲絕了跡。
Flocks of, say, starlings or herds of wildebeest do not count as real societies.
成群居住的星椋鳥或者角馬不能認為具有真正的社會性。
But perhaps starlings aren't so bad. When the sun hits their feathers just right, they do have a certain iridescent attractiveness.
但或許椋鳥沒那麼糟，若陽光以某個角度照射到牠們身上，其實會有虹彩般的光澤。
By the time he attempted this picture, Darren had spent three years photographing starlings.
在嘗試拍攝這張照片之前，Darren花了三年時間拍攝歐椋鳥。
Starlings are systematic in their approach and methodically strip bushes from the top down.
歐掠鳥采摘的方法很有條理性，從上至下有序地剝離灌木。
One, of starlings, concluded that these birds become optimistic or pessimistic based on living conditions.
一個是關于八哥的研究，結論就是這些鳥兒能根據它們的生活狀態變得樂觀或者悲觀。
A plague of starlings in Tamworth Australia has driven desperate locals to try an unusual scare tactic.
在澳大利亞的塔姆沃思的歐椋鳥苦惱讓當地居民絕望的嘗拭一種不尋常的恐嚇策略。
The starlings, flying at warp speed, create incredible shapes that change minute-by-minute, second-by-second.
該椋鳥，在異常的速度飛行，創造令人難以置信的形狀，改變分鐘按一分鐘，第二次按秒。
A flock of starlings flew over Gretna Green, on Scottish borders, putting on a spectacular show.
一群八哥鳥飛越位于蘇格蘭邊境的葛特納格林，形成及其壯觀的圖像。
One of the biggest such events occurred in 1986, when 30, 000 Ohioan blackbirds and starlings were poisoned over a period of eight days.
其中最大的一起事件發生在1986年，短短8天，3萬只俄亥俄州的黑鸝和椋鳥中毒身亡。
The birds, brown starlings with dark feathers and orange beaks, can parrot human speech. Mr.
這兩只棕色的八哥有黑色的羽毛和橘黃色的喙，而且能學人說話。
Before they settle down, the starlings put on one of the most spectacular shows in the natural world.
以前他們定居下來，把椋鳥在自然界最壯觀的節目之一。
Far below, beneath a swirl of starlings , we could see the plains melt into those of Afghanistan, Alexander's route here from Persia.
遠在歐掠鳥盤旋之處的下方，我們窺見平原逐漸隱沒融入遠方，最終變成阿富汗平原，那是亞歷山大從波斯來此的征服之路。
Emerald starlings are fairly small when compared with other such birds.
與同類的其他鳥相比，翠輝椋鳥要小很多。
By 1950 starlings could be found coast to coast, north past Hudson Bay and south into Mexico.
到了1950年，從東岸到西岸、北至哈德遜灣、南至墨西哥灣，都出現椋鳥的蹤跡。
No matter where we can see that after a tuning of starlings scholars to speak.
不論在哪里，我們都可以見到經過調教的八哥學人說話。
Earlier, the Romanian Black Sea city of Constanta Yijuminlou just before the death occurred more than 30 European starlings.
此前，羅馬尼亞黑海沿岸康斯坦察市一居民樓前出現30多只死亡的歐椋鳥。
They determined, for example, that a 47-million-year-old feather had the dark iridescent sheen found on starlings today.
舉個例，他們根據現存的星椋鳥的毛色確定了一片有4.7億年的羽毛有暗彩色光澤。
Perhaps we should all be breeding starlings in our back gardens now before the unthinkable happens.
在難以想象的事情發生之前，也許我們從現在起就應該在自己的后花園中繁殖驚鳥。
The unsightly result of flocks of thousands of starlings flying over Rome
成千上萬椋鳥在羅馬上空形成各種視覺奇觀
Starlings at sunset over the West Pier, Brighton by Barry Rohde of Brighton, East Sussex
黃昏時分，布萊頓西碼頭，椋鳥。攝影：東薩塞克斯郡布萊頓的巴里·羅德
Analyzing Starlings scene of the developing forces of socialism
斯大林社會主義發展動力觀析論
Starlings cool off in a fountain in Washington DC
一只白頭翁在噴泉池中沖涼
