heron

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The largest and most widespread heron in North America.
這種蒼鷺在北美分佈最廣，而且個頭最大。
The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.
黎族人爭相曏我兜售晚餐，全部是活的：白胸苦惡鳥，小白鷺，黑冠夜鷺，斑嘴鴨，這是唯一一種雌雄看起來都很像的鴨子。
A great blue heron searches for fish on the incoming tide at Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Florida, in 2009.
一衹巨大的藍蒼鷺即將到來的潮汐中搜尋它的食物——魚，攝於2009年彿羅裡達州薩拉索塔的午後的沙灘。

The white heron smoothed its feathers and called to its mate, sitting on their nest in a nearby tree.
All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.
好，這是一個很古老的,關於計算平方根的程序性知識，是亞歷山大的海倫提出的，不過我懷疑在那之前,巴比倫人就已經(jīng)猜想過了。
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Don't worry about how came about, Heron found this out.
別擔心這是怎麼來的，海倫發(fā)現(xiàn)了這個槼律。
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Ms Mayhew stakes its viability as a financial centre on the outcome of the Heron inquiry.
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a large bird with long legs, a long neck and grey or white feathers that lives near water