storm petrel
风暴海燕,暴风鸌,风暴鸌,暴风雨海燕
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- : 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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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.