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gull

/guhl/US // gʌl //UK // (ɡʌl) //

海鸥,海燕,海鷗,鸥类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of numerous long-winged, web-toed, aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having usually white plumage with a gray back and wings.

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Examples

  • Come April, seabirds—including western gulls and California brown pelicans—begin nesting in earnest.

  • One of the problems they had at JFK was an overpopulation of gulls.

  • After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.

  • Yes, and a terrible lie—designed to gull money from a generous, unsuspecting public.

  • “These were not the finest Santa suits,” said the bartender at the Rusty Gull.

  • Gull introduced Mortenson to the villagers as being a medical doctor and professor at an American medical college.

  • Asma Gull Hasan was born in Chicago to Pakistani immigrant parents and grew up in Colorado.

  • On this occasion, however, the tug appeared somewhat late on the scene, and hailed the Gull.

  • The drama, as far as the Gull-Light was concerned, ended that night with the disappearance of the tug and lifeboat.

  • The mate and men rushed on deck in time to see a large ship pass close to the bow of the Gull.

  • Little more than an hour before midnight another craft was observed driving down on the hawse of the Gull.

  • Meanwhile the sun went down, and the lanterns of the Goodwin, the Gull, and the South sandhead floating lights went up.