puffin
英 ['pʌfɪn]
美 ['pʌfɪn]
puffin 海鹦可能来自puff,吹气，-in,小词后缀。因这种鸟圆鼓鼓的身体而得名。
- puffin
- puffin: [14] Puffin probably goes back to one of the ancestral Celtic languages of the British Isles – perhaps Cornish. Its English guise is no doubt due to its plump appearance, which suggested associations with puff [13] (a word which originated as an imitation of the sound of puffing).
- puffin (n.)
- North Atlantic seabird, mid-14c., perhaps connected with puff on notion of appearance, or from some Celtic word (earliest association is with Cornwall and Scilly), and altered by influence of puff.
- 1. The Hatfield Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Mr. John Wimpenny , is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.
- 哈特费尔德·普芬是一架时髦的飞机, 但设计这架飞机的人约翰·温佩尼先生感到很难使它飞离地面.
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- 2. N Pacific puffin having a large yellow plume over each eye.
- 北太平洋的海鹦,每只眼睛上方有一簇黄色的羽毛.
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