hummingbird

参见：humming-bird 和 humming bird

英语

Rufous hummingbird (one species of hummingbird)

替代写法

• humming bird, humming-bird

词源

来自humming (名词) +‎ bird，来自翅膀快速拍动发出的嗡嗡声。

发音

• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɝd/
• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɜːd/
• (北英格兰) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈhʌmɪnˌbɜːd/

• 音频 (美国)：

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名词

hummingbird (复数 hummingbirds)

1. 蜂鸟
   • 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.

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蜂鸟

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