puffin

• n. 善知鸟；海鹦；海鸭之类

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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