loon

英 [luːn] 美 [luːn]

n.  潜鸟(北美食鱼大鸟,叫声似笑)

复数:loons现在分词:looning

GRE

BNC.33736 / COCA.17823



牛津词典

noun

  1. 潜鸟(北美食鱼大鸟,叫声似笑)
    a large N American bird that eats fish and has a cry like a laugh
    1. 潜鸟(北美食鱼大鸟,叫声似笑)
      a large N American bird that eats fish and has a cry like a laugh

      双语例句

      1. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.
        我不会比在池塘里狂笑的疯子或者比伍登。庞德更孤独。
      2. Late evening dew glistened on every bush and soon the loon's call would resound across the water.
        再晚些,灌木上的露珠开始闪烁,不久,潜水鸟的叫声就会在水面上回荡起来。
      3. How many chicken claws can you "loon" every minute?
        你一分钟能拆多少只?
      4. The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.& Van Loon, The Story of Mankind.
        历史是经验的巨塔。岁月在无限的往昔旷野中,建立此一巨塔。&房龙《人类的故事》。
      5. Van Loon defied his doctor's caution against overwork in order to chair a division of the National War Fund.
        为了在国家战争基金会的一个部门担任主席,房龙没有理会他的医生对他过度工作的警告。
      6. Three Dramatic Documents Discovered by British Sinologist& Pier van der Loon
        英国汉学家龙彼得发现的三种戏曲文献
      7. A more serious charge against van Loon was the sloppiness of his scholarship.
        对房龙的一项更严肃的指控是他在学问上的马虎。
      8. Both laugh. A small crew of Helm's Deep survivors arrive. Pippin chortles like a loon.
        大家都笑了。一小队海尔姆深谷的幸存者抵达。皮平咯咯笑得像个傻瓜。
      9. Everyone thought he was a loon.
        每个人都骂他神经。
      10. At that age, if I did not have the identical Biba T-shirt and loon trousers everyone else had I was not prepared to leave the house.
        在那个年龄,我若是出门,就必定要和周围人一样穿上Biba体恤衫和懒汉裤。
      11. Although he admitted to an occasional chat with god, whom he pictured as "a sort of beneficent grandfather," van Loon generally had little patience for myths.
        上帝被他描述为“类似于仁慈祖父”的样子,而且他承认偶尔会与这个上帝交谈,但一般而言他对神话没什么耐性。
      12. In the fall the loon ( Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.
        秋天里,潜水鸟(Colymbusglaclalis)像往常一样来了,在湖里脱毛并且洗澡,我还没有起身,森林里已响起了它的狂放的笑声。
      13. In failing health, van Loon did not attend all souls after he appeared in the pulpit the Sunday he joined.
        因为健康状况变得糟糕,房龙没有参加万灵教会的活动,只在加入教会的那个礼拜天出现在讲道坛上。
      14. Van Loon did not shy away from controversial statements.
        房龙并不回避富有争议的言论。
      15. Research in the flow characteristics and energy consumption of air jet loon's main nozzle
        喷气织机主喷嘴气流特性及能耗的研究

      英英释义

      noun

      1. large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back

          Synonym:    diver

        1. a worthless lazy fellow

          1. a person with confused ideas

              Synonym:    addle-headaddleheadbirdbrain