kestrel
kestrel 英 [ˈkestrəl] 美 [ˈkɛstrəl]
n. （产于欧洲的）茶隼
名词复数:kestrels
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- n. （产于欧洲的）茶隼
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1. A common kestrel chases a barn owl, which is carrying a mouse.
一只普通的红隼追逐着一只刁着老鼠的仓鸮。
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2. Acuteness of sight is difficult to define but if we were endowed with the eyesight of a kestrel it is estimated that we could read a newspaper at a range of 25 yards.
食肉鸟视力的敏锐度是很维定义的，但是我们可以这样给鹰的视力加以说明，如果我们具有鹰的视力，那么我们可以在25码的距离之外可以看报纸。
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3. I have seen a kestrel flying over the Deptford gasworks, and I have heard a first-rate performance by a blackbird in the Euston Road.
我的目光曾追随一只红隼在德普津煤气厂上空盘旋，我也曾在尤斯顿路上聆听画眉鸟一流的歌喉。
- kestrel (n.) kind of small falcon, windhover, c. 1600, earlier castrell (15c.), probably from Old French cresserele (13c.), earlier cercelle (Modern French crécelle), a word of obscure origin. Perhaps it is related to French crecerelle "rattle," from Latin crepitacillium "small rattle," diminutive of crepitaculum "noisy bell, rattle," from crepitare "to crackle, rattle;" possibly from the old belief that their noise frightened away other hawks. The unetymological -t- probably developed in French.
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