hummingbird
參見：humming-bird 和 humming bird
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來自humming (名詞) + bird，來自翅膀快速拍動發出的嗡嗡聲。
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hummingbird (複數 hummingbirds)
- 蜂鳥
- 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
- Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
相關詞 编辑
蜂鳥