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storm petrel

风暴海燕,暴风鸌,风暴鸌,暴风雨海燕

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several small, tube-nosed seabirds of the family Hydrobatidae, usually having black or sooty-brown plumage with a white rump.

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Examples

  • The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

  • The fear that Pascal might weather the storm has Du Vernay, Oprah Winfrey, and other Hollywood elites pulling their punches.

  • Random House is also covering the legal fees of an innocent man called Barry who was caught up in the storm.

  • But so many years later, I still get a tense feeling in my stomach when I see a strong storm approaching.

  • Rather than storm the hospital, Tyreese says, the group should take a couple of cops hostage then set up a trade with Dawn.

  • A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

  • This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.

  • It was depressing to think of going to bed in such circumstances with the yelling of an Arctic storm for a lullaby.

  • The storm, however, was over; the moon and stars were shining in a clear sky, and the aurora was dancing merrily.

  • While the fortress was undermining at home, they were not idle, who were preparing to storm it from abroad.