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词汇 tern
释义 tern
noun[ C ]
uk /tɜːn/ us /tɝːn/
a small black and white sea bird with long, pointed wings and a divided tail燕鸥
 
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fulmar
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For the tern chick, anything that behaved sufficiently like its parent was "recognized" as its parent, even if it wasn't.
Tree-nesting species (lesser noddies, white terns and a few brown noddies) form the bulk of the seabird population, and most nest on the forested plateau.
Obviously, the tern chicks in the experiment were not recognizing their individual parents - they were being fooled into treating a loudspeaker as a parent tern.
These seeds were attached to feathers of terns and noddies and between the daily immersions, they were hung to dry in a shaded, wellventilated site.
Pateman argues from a feminist perspective that by defining citizenship in terns of participation in the market place democracy is compromised.
We are in no better position than the tern chicks, as both human and non-human animals, and we are at the mercy of our senses for reidentifying particulars.
Hurford concludes from this that tern chicks have no mental representation of their parents as individuals.
The tern chicks were responding to very finely-grained properties of the auditory signal, and apparently neglecting even the most obvious of visual properties discernible in the situation.
The same is true of the petrels, the skuas, the terns, and many of their eggs make quite delicious eating.
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We must be careful that the terns are not forgotten.
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At the end of tern she conducted the leavers' service in front of a full church congregation.
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Legal aid is not to be removed pro tern.
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I have no illusions about the border controls sys tern being perfect.
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Approximately seven years ago, the warden informed me of the destruction of a substantial number of terns' eggs by an animal.
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However, different groups use the terns rather loosely to mean different things.
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