单词	nighthawk
释义	nighthawk /ˈnʌɪthɔːk / noun 1An American nightjar with sharply pointed wings. Family Caprimulgidae: four genera and several species, in particular the common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) of North America. Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.... Some species with large mouths and small bills, such as nighthawks, whip-poor wills, and the aptly named frogmouth owls, open their bills wide as they fly into insects, and the prey is captured in the birds’ gaping maws. Swallows, swifts and nighthawks, all pursuing flying insects, fly erratically. 2 North American term for night owl.The nighthawks sit alone, lost in their individual thoughts, as if in a glass bowl.... His people were never the iconic nighthawks Edward Hopper found at the diner. He has a job, a home, he can come and go; he can look at the customers with a half-smile. It is the customers who are the nighthawks.
随便看	unrusted unrustling UNRWA unsaddle unsafe unsafely unsafeness unsafe sex unsaid unsalable unsalaried unsaleability unsaleable unsalted unsalvageable unsanctified unsanctioned unsanitary fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness fruitlet fruit loop fruit machine fruit pigeon

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