shearwater

基本解释

One's ears are more attuned to sounds in the darker hours – the very occasional shriek of a shearwater, the other sounds with no known cause.
在黑暗中，人的耳朵会对声音更敏感——偶尔有海鸥发出尖利的叫声，还有各种来路不明的声音。
The critically endangered Balearic shearwater, another seabird, has been spotted more often in the UK, as climate change forces it to travel further to find fish.
另一种生存严重受到威胁的海鸟，巴利阿里海鸥，由于气候变暖，不得不飞去更远的地方寻找食物。
I banked left, then right—more of a pigeon than a sooty shearwater but flying all the same.
我时而向左，时而向右——感觉更像一只鸽子而不是黑色的海鸥，但飞起来的感觉都是一样的。

The Austin-based band Shearwater named its new album after the bird of prey.
NPR: Shearwater: Gone to the Birds, Happily
But Shearwater's most blistering moments coexist nicely with the portentously brooding, fearlessly serious likes of "Hidden Lakes, " from The Golden Archipelago.
NPR: Shearwater: Grandiose And Delicate
Throughout Shearwater's history, bird imagery has been a constant for the band.
NPR: Shearwater: Gone to the Birds, Happily

any of several oceanic birds of the genera Puffinus, such as P. puffinus (Manx shearwater), Procellaria, etc, specialized for an aerial or aquatic existence: family Procellariidae, order Procellariiformes (petrels)