albatross 的定义
- any of several large, web-footed sea birds of the family Diomedeidae that have the ability to remain aloft for long periods.Compare wandering albatross.
- a seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, as of guilt or responsibility.
- something burdensome that impedes action or progress.
- Textiles. a lightweight worsted fabric with a crepe or pebble finish.a plain-weave cotton fabric with a soft nap surface.
albatross 近义词
burden
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- Most of the stores being closed are in weak malls from which shoppers have long since defected and which have become an albatross for Macy’s.
- Well, birds in the order Procellariiformes—albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters—are commonly known as tubenoses because of that curious little characteristic.
- After all, these frequent discounts have proved an albatross for old school retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond and Gap, training people to wait for a deal.
- The study also criticized certain analytical techniques and claimed that albatrosses don’t do Lévy walks after all, and that it was unclear whether many species did.
- When the opportunity arose to analyze flight data from albatrosses — birds that fly freely over the open ocean in search of food — he gratefully took it.
- Note to Sting: An “albatross” in this context is more like “tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.”
- She confesses that shame “hung around my neck like a scarlet-A albatross.”
- The deal reached to end the shutdown did nothing to address the albatross of unpredictability.
- It was tough when I was younger; it was like an albatross on my back but I just found a way to navigate it.
- But the Ryan budget could become an albatross in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff.
- He proposed that I might pilot the two-seater while he followed and pretended to give chase in an Albatross scout.
- Instantly a great albatross swooped down upon it and swallowed the bait.
- Far out on the Pacific the albatross sails proudly on his broad wings, and cares nothing for high winds or storms.
- I was surprised and delighted to see a large albatross soaring majestically over the ship.
- A few hours later we were landing beside the Albatross, in the leaden blue sea beyond the ice barrier.