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(huì)對(duì)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(yán)重受到威脅的海鳥，巴利阿里海鷗，由于氣候變暖，不得不飛去更遠(yuǎn)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(shí)而向左，時(shí)而向右——感覺更像一只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)