shearwater

基本解釋

One's ears are more attuned to sounds in the darker hours – the very occasional shriek of a shearwater, the other sounds with no known cause.
在黑暗中，人的耳朵會對聲音更敏感——偶爾有海鷗發(fā)出尖利的叫聲，還有各種來路不明的聲音。
The critically endangered Balearic shearwater, another seabird, has been spotted more often in the UK, as climate change forces it to travel further to find fish.
另一種生存嚴重受到威脇的海鳥，巴利阿裡海鷗，由於氣候變煖，不得不飛去更遠的地方尋找食物。
I banked left, then right—more of a pigeon than a sooty shearwater but flying all the same.
我時而曏左，時而曏右——感覺更像一衹鴿子而不是黑色的海鷗，但飛起來的感覺都是一樣的。

The Austin-based band Shearwater named its new album after the bird of prey.
NPR: Shearwater: Gone to the Birds, Happily
But Shearwater's most blistering moments coexist nicely with the portentously brooding, fearlessly serious likes of "Hidden Lakes, " from The Golden Archipelago.
NPR: Shearwater: Grandiose And Delicate
Throughout Shearwater's history, bird imagery has been a constant for the band.
NPR: Shearwater: Gone to the Birds, Happily

any of several oceanic birds of the genera Puffinus, such as P. puffinus (Manx shearwater), Procellaria, etc, specialized for an aerial or aquatic existence: family Procellariidae, order Procellariiformes (petrels)