中英互译
nestling
英 /ˈnestlɪŋ/美 /ˈnestlɪŋ/
基本释义
- n.未离巢的雏鸟；婴儿，小孩
- v.安顿下来；筑巢；把……安置于巢中；依偎；位处，坐落（nestle 的现在分词形式）
SAT
双语例句
- Time and again, Mr. Heaney returns to the image of the pen. He began his long career writing of such a pen, nestling snug as a gun between finger and thumb.希尼先生一次又一次回到了“笔”这个意象中。他开始了他漫长的写作生涯，这支笔就像一支枪，舒适地依偎在他的手指和拇指之间。
- A classic example is noisy begging by nestling songbirds when a parent returns to the nest with food.一个典型的例子就是鸣禽的雏鸟在父母带着食物归巢时所表现出的吵闹的乞食行为。
- Therefore, a begging nestling that secures food at the expense of its siblings might actually leave behind fewer copies of its genes overall than it might otherwise.因此，一只以其兄弟姐妹为代价来获取食物的乞食雏鸟实际上可能会比其它雏鸟留下更少的基因副本。
网络短语
- nestling bird未离巢的雏鸟
- fledgling nestling squab雏鸟
- Nestling Mountain偎依着山
- nestling pigeon雏鸽
词语扩展
英英释义
- n.young bird not yet fledged
- n.a young person of either sex
词源
- nestling雏鸟，幼鸟nest,鸟巢，-ling,小词后缀。即还不能离巢的小鸟。