osprey
osprey 英 ['ɒsprɪ;-preɪ] 美 ['ɑspre]
n. [鸟] 鹗（一种鱼鹰，腹部羽毛为白色）
名词复数:ospreys
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- n. [鸟] 鹗（一种鱼鹰，腹部羽毛为白色）
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1. A duck flies off in alarm as an osprey swoops in to catch its lunch.
鱼鹰猛扑到池塘抓鱼作午餐的时候惊起了一只鸭子。
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2. Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey.
在动物中，一个生来要成为白鸽的生物是从来不会变成猛禽的。
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3. Starting in 1989, then-secdef Dick Cheney (before he became a supervillain) tried four times to ax the osprey, an aircraft that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like a plane.
1989年开始，当时的国防部长切尼（在他成为大坏蛋之前）曾四次试图砍掉鱼鹰，一种像直升机一样起飞而像飞机一样飞行的飞机。
- osprey (n.) fishing hawk, mid-15c., from Anglo-French ospriet, from Medieval Latin avis prede "bird of prey," from Latin avis praedæ, a generic term apparently confused with this specific bird in Old French on its similarity to ossifrage.
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