heron
heron — 名詞
- heronsingular
- heronsplural
1. a tall bird with long thin legs and a long neck that stands in shallow water to
蒼鷺
長腿長頸的涉禽，常在水邊捕魚
a tall bird with long thin legs and a long neck that stands in shallow water to hunt fish, frogs, and other small water creatures
Yuki spotted a grey heron standing perfectly still at the edge of the rice field.
Yuki 在稻田邊看到一隻蒼鷺，靜靜地站著一動也不動。
collocation: grey heron
From the bridge, Amara could see a heron gliding low across the misty river.
從橋上，Amara 可以看到一隻蒼鷺在霧濛濛的河面上低飛滑翔。
A sudden splash broke the silence as a heron speared a frog below the reeds.
蘆葦叢下突然傳來水花聲，原來是一隻蒼鷺刺中了一隻青蛙。
Diego's grandfather told him that herons had nested in the tall pine trees for fifty years.
Diego 的祖父告訴他，蒼鷺在那片高大的松樹上築巢已經五十年了。
Kwame sketched the heron's long neck and slender legs in his notebook during biology class.
Kwame 在生物課上用筆記本畫下了蒼鷺的長脖子和纖細的腿。
文法句型
a heron
the heron
herons (plural)
用法筆記
Often confused with cranes. A heron pulls its neck back into an S-shape when flying; a crane flies with its neck stretched out straight. Egrets are smaller, typically white members of the same bird family.