1.【鸟】燕八哥,高梁头,欧椋鸟,椋鸟科的鸟
2.【建】杀水桩;桥墩尖端
1.a small European bird with dark shiny feathers
1."How starlings achieve such a strong correlation remains a mystery to us, " they wrote.
他们写道：“燕八哥怎样会实现它们之间如此牢固的相互联系，对我们来说仍然是一个未解之谜。”
2.In winter thousands of starlings perform their murmurations round it, banking swiftly and silently in vast helices across the sky.
冬天，成千上万的八哥在码头旁边盘旋，喃喃嘀咕，排成一排成巨大螺旋形快速而安静地在天空中飞翔。
3.Master said: "The starlings do not shit the bed. "
主人说：“八哥别在床上拉屎。”
4.Several hundred dead red-winged black birds, starlings, sparrows, and grackles have now turned up in Louisiana near Baton Rouge.
路易斯安那巴吞鲁日附近出现数百只死亡的红翅黑鸟、椋鸟、麻雀和白头翁。
5.Collisions with power lines seem to have killed roughly 500 blackbirds and starlings in Louisiana on Tuesday.
据瑞典国家兽医学院称，周二在路易斯安那州约有5百只黑鹂和欧洲椋鸟死于与电力线路发生碰撞。
6.It seemed as if the starlings had been hypnotised because they acted as if they were not being chased.
椋鸟看似精神恍惚，因此它们的举动像没人追赶一样。
7.Thousands of the starlings earlier this month forced a Ryanair passenger jet to make an emergency landing at the city's Ciampino airport.
这个月初，成千上万的欧掠鸟曾害一架爱尔兰瑞恩航空的客机紧急迫降在罗马的项比诺机场。
8.When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.
对于和这些椋鸟或者鱼一样，弱小而易受伤害的生物，群居或者去迷惑捕食者确实是一种有用的策略。
9.And starlings actually appear to be innocent in the case of the missing bluebirds.
实际上，蓝知更鸟的数量减少和椋鸟并没有关系。
10.At sunset, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus are often filled with the noise of thousands of starlings .
黄昏时分，特拉法尔加广场和皮卡迪利广场回荡着数千只鸟飞翔的噪音。