flamingo是什么意思

双语例句

(1)The island is home to flamingos.

这个岛屿是火烈鸟的家园。

(2)The first time I saw flamingos was at the zoo.

我第一次见到火烈鸟是在动物园。

(3)The pattern on my sheets is a flamingo.

我的床单上的图案是火烈鸟。

(4)We met at a bar called the Flamingo.

我们在一家名为“火烈鸟”的酒吧相遇。

(5)I say, John, I see your flamingo with the broken leg!

喂，约翰，我看见你的断腿火烈鸟了！

(6)The second story of a nearby house perches on a single pillar, like a boxy flamingo.

附近的一幢二层楼颤巍巍地倚在一根柱子上，像一只四四方方的火烈鸟。

(7)Now, the island is one of only a handful of lesser flamingo breeding colonies in the world.

目前该岛是世界上为数不多的小火烈鸟繁殖基地之一。

(8)The scarlet ibis, like the flamingo, gains its vibrant color from carotene derived from a diet of crustaceans.

红鹮和火烈鸟一样，吃一些甲壳类动物，在体内生成胡萝卜素，就形成了它鲜艳的颜色。

释义

n.

a tall wading bird with mainly pink or scarlet plumage and long legs and neck. It has a heavy bent bill that is held upside down in the water in order to filter-feed on small organisms

红鹳，火烈鸟。

词源

"mid 16th cent.: from Spanish flamengo, earlier form of flamenco （see FLAMENCO）; associated, because of its colour, with Latin flamma ‘a flame’."

考纲分布

近9年出现13次

重要程度: 5星

100%; n 火烈鸟

考纲释义

( 1)n. 火烈鸟

真题例句：

Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.

然而，火烈鸟是唯一能在死亡中创造生命的物种。[2017年 CET6 阅读理解C]

So far this year, water levels have been too high for the flamingos to nest.

今年到目前为止，水位太高，火烈鸟无法筑巢。[2017年 CET6 阅读理解C]

It's the place where nearly 75 percent of the world's flamingos (火烈鸟) are born.

世界上近75%的火烈鸟出生在这个地方。[2017年 CET6 阅读理解C]