albatrosses

英 [ˈælbətrɒsɪz]

美 [ˈælbəˌtrɑsɪz]

n.  信天翁(白色长翼大海鸟，生活于太平洋和南半球海洋); 惹麻烦的事; 苦恼; 障碍
albatross的复数

柯林斯词典

• 信天翁
  Analbatrossis a very large white seabird.
• N-COUNT 沉重的负担；无法摆脱的苦恼；障碍
  If you describe something or someone as analbatrossaround your neck, you mean that they cause you great problems from which you cannot escape, or they prevent you from doing what you want to do.
  1. Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.
     私有化可能会成为该执政党一个难以摆脱的政治障碍。

双语例句

• The mystery of where albatrosses go during their epic migrations has been solved by a study that will help the world's most threatened family of birds.
  最近，一份研究报告解开了有关信天翁飞行路径的秘密，这将对保护这类世界濒危鸟类起到至关重要的作用。
• The instruments have shown that albatrosses are capable of astonishing feats of endurance and navigation, and can fly round the world several times without stopping on land.
  这一跟踪仪器还表明，信天翁有极强的耐力和航海能力，能够绕地球飞行几圈而不着陆。
• In one recent study, 12,000 albatrosses are estimated to have died in the South African trawl fishery in one year.
  在一个最近的研究种，一年中估计有1.2万信天翁死于南部非洲的拖网捕鱼业。
• Albatrosses breed once every one or two years. While rearing youngsters, parents undergo journeys of thousands of miles to find food.
  信天翁每一或二年繁殖一次，为了喂养孩子，他们跋涉数千英里去觅食。
• Birds such as albatrosses tend to gather around any objects that have fallen into the sea, and so crew from the ships may be looking out for that too. '
  信天翁等鸟类一般会聚集在坠入海里的物体的周围，这样，船上的人员也可以寻找哪里出现了这种情况。
• We reckon they are losing about& 10 million a year because albatrosses are getting caught on their lines, preventing fish from being caught.
  根据我们计算，如果信天翁被缠在他们的钓线上，他们每年会因为少捉鱼而损失约一千万英镑。
• Albatrosses use their formidable wingspans to ride the ocean winds and sometimes to glide for hours without rest or even a flap of their wings.
  信天翁用它们强大的冀追逐海浪，有时能滑翔数小时不休息甚至不会拍打一下翅膀。
• Albatrosses drink salt water, as do some other sea birds.
  信天翁喝咸水，同其它一些海鸟一样。
• A bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc..
  经常出现在沿海和远海的鸟；海鸥；鹈鹕；塘鹅；鸬鹚；信天翁；海燕；等。
• In monogamous gulls and albatrosses, it gave females the chance to breed without a male partner.
  海鸥与信天翁同样有“一夫一妻”传统，不过雌性在没有雄性的前提下可以更好的哺育后代。