cormorant

英 [ˈkɔ:mərənt]

美 [ˈkɔ:rmərənt]

基本含义：

n.鸬鹚；贪婪的人

详情解释：

noun

1. large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish
used in Asia to catch fish

Synonym: Phalacrocorax carbo

1. 鸬鹚
A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish.

1. 鸬鹚/贪婪的人/贪婪的：corm /球茎/球根/ | cormorant /鸬鹚/贪婪的人/贪婪的/ | corn-exchange /粮食交易所/

2. 鸬鹚swan 天鹅：pelican 鹈鹕 | cormorant 鸬鹚swan 天鹅 | cob 雄天鹅

3. 贪婪的人：transmigrant 移民 | cormorant 贪婪的人 | entrant 新就业者,竞赛者,新加入者

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Cormorant fishing was once practiced in lots of places in South-East China, and there were many fishermen in the area.(曾经中国东南部很多地方从事鸬鹚捕鱼业，并且这个地区有很多渔民。)

As soon as the baby cormorant breaks the eggs, it is watched by Damin himself.(小鸬鹚一啄破蛋壳，年夜明就亲身照看它。)

Next to him is a cormorant, an aquatic bird that helps him to catch fish.(在他旁边有一只鸬鹚，这只水鸟在帮他捕鱼。)

The team found that populations of seabird species the eagles had historically preyed on, such as Brandt's cormorant and Cassin's auklet, are now greatly reduced on the islands.(研究小组发现，秃鹰之前捕食的海鸟目前数量急剧减少，如勃兰特岛鸬鹚和卡森岛海雀。)

Shakespeare: "time is a voracious cormorant."(莎士比亚说“时间是贪心的。”)

In the afternoon it all became coffee-table photogenic: blue skies, white ice, calm waters, a lone cormorant on a steeple of ice, and twee chinstrap penguins hiking up snowy slopes.(到了下午，一切又变成咖啡桌上的照片那么漂亮：蓝色的天空，白色的冰，平静的海面，浮冰上栖息着的一只鸬鹚，可爱的颏带企鹅摇摇摆摆走上白雪覆盖的山坡。)

A bat, a bramble and a cormorant entered into covenants with articles, to join stocks, and trade in partnership together.(蝙蝠、荆棘和鸬鹚订立了契约，决定合伙做生意。)

The exciting cormorant fishing performance is over there.(那边有令人刺激的鱼鹰捕鱼表演。)