albatross

albatross怎么读

英式音标：[ˈælbətrɒs]

美式音标：[ˈælbətrɔs]

albatross基本解释

n. [鸟] 信天翁；沉重负担

albatross的意思释义

n.

信天翁，沉重负担；

变形

复数：albatrosses

英英释义

n.

(figurative) something that hinders or handicaps

\"she was an albatross around his neck\"

同义词：millstone

large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight

同义词：mollymawk

albatross用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

An albatross aloft can be a spectacular site.

高高在上的信天翁是一种壮观景象。

The old car is an albatross around my neck.

那辆旧车成为我的累赘。

The issue has become a political albatross for the government.

这个问题已经成为政府的政治阻碍了。

例句参考

Albatross mortality and associated bait loss in the Japanese longline fishery in the Southern Ocean

Experiences with developing ALBATROSS: a learning-based transportation oriented simulation system

ALBATROSS: A Learning Based Transportation Oriented Simulation System / Ed. T.A. Arentze, H.J.P. Timmermans, p.183-. ISBN 90-6814-10...

The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea--Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910

The fish diet of black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophris and grey-headed albatross D. Chrysostoma at South Georgia

Population Dynamics of the Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans, of the Crozet Islands: Causes and Consequences of the Population D...

Population dynamics of wandering albatross Diomedea exulans and Amsterdam albatross D. amsterdamensis in the Indian Ocean and thei...

Seasonal sexual segregation in two Thalassarche albatross species: competitive exclusion, reproductive role specialization or foragi...

Does Prey Capture Induce Area‐Restricted Search? A Fine‐Scale Study Using GPS in a Marine Predator, the Wandering Albatross

albatross词源

albatross

albatross: [17] The word albatross has a confused history. The least uncertain thing about it is that until the late 17th century it was alcatras; the change of the first element to albaseems to have arisen from association of the albatross’s white colour with Latin albus ‘white’. However, which particular bird the alcatras was, and where the word alcatras ultimately came from, are much more dubious.The term was applied variously, over the 16th to the 19th centuries, to albatrosses, frigate birds, gannets, gulls, and pelicans. Its immediate source was Spanish and Portuguese alcatraz ‘pelican’ (hence Alcatraz, the prison-island in San Francisco Bay, USA, once the haunt of pelicans), which was clearly of Arabic origin, and it has been speculated that it comes from Arabic al qādūs ‘the bucket’, on the premise that the bucket of a water-wheel used for irrigation resembles a pelican’s beak.Arabic qādūs itself comes from Greek kádos ‘jar’.

albatross (n.)

1670s, probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz \"pelican\" (16c.), perhaps derived from Arabic al-ghattas \"sea eagle\" [Barnhart]; or from Portuguese alcatruz \"the bucket of a water wheel\" [OED], from Arabic al-qadus \"machine for drawing water, jar\" (from Greek kados \"jar\"), in reference to the pelican\'s pouch (compare Arabic saqqa \"pelican,\" literally \"water carrier\"). Either way, the spelling was influenced by Latin albus \"white.\" The name was extended, through some mistake, by English sailors to a larger sea-bird (order Tubinares).Albatrosses were considered good luck by sailors; figurative sense of \"burden\" (1936) is from Coleridge\'s \"Rime of the Ancient Mariner\" (1798) about the bad luck of a sailor who shoots an albatross and then is forced to wear its corpse as an indication that he, not the whole ship, offended against the bird. The prison-island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay is named for pelicans that roosted there.

albatross相关例句

1.An albatross, especially the black - footed albatross.

信天翁，特指黑足信天翁

9.An albatross aloft can be a spectacular site.

高高在上的信天翁是一种壮观景象。

10.The project is a financial alBatross from the start.

这项工程从一开始就是个财政方面的大包袱。