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THE PASSING OF THE BIRDS.
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"The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing."
Omar Khayyám.
By the first of August the bird-lover's year is already on the wane1. In the chestnut2 grove3, where a month ago the wood thrush, the rose-breasted grosbeak, and the scarlet4 tanager were singing, the loiterer now hears nothing but the wood pewee's pensive5 whistle and the sharp monotony of the red-eyed vireo. The thrasher is silent in the berry pasture, and the bobolink in the meadow. The season of jollity is over. Orioles, to be sure, after a month of silence, again have fits of merry fifing. The field sparrow and the song sparrow are still in tune6, and the meadow lark7 whistles, though rarely. Catbirds still practice their feeble improvisations and mimicries in the thickets9 along the brooksides as evening comes on, and of the multitudes of robins10 a few are [Pg 177] certain to be heard warbling before the day is over. Goldfinches have grown suddenly numerous, or so it seems, and not infrequently one of them breaks out in musical canary-like twitterings. On moonlight evenings the tremulous, haunting cry of the screech-owl comes to your ears, always from far away, and if you walk through the chestnut grove aforesaid in the daytime you may chance to catch his faint, vibratory, tree-frog whistle. For myself, I never enter the grove without glancing into the dry top of a certain tall tree, to see whether the little rascal12 is sitting in his open door. More than half the time he is there, and always with his eye on me. What an air he has!—like a judge on the bench! If I were half as wise as he looks, these essays of mine would never more be dull. For his and all other late summer music let us be thankful; but it is true, nevertheless, that the year is
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wane
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| n.衰微,亏缺,变弱;v.变小,亏缺,呈下弦 | |
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chestnut
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| n.栗树,栗子 | |
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grove
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scarlet
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| n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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tune
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lark
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thickets
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| n.灌木丛( thicket的名词复数 );丛状物 | |
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robins
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| n.知更鸟,鸫( robin的名词复数 );(签名者不分先后,以避免受责的)圆形签名抗议书(或请愿书) | |
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finch
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| n.雀科鸣禽(如燕雀,金丝雀等) | |
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rascal
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waning
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| adj.(月亮)渐亏的,逐渐减弱或变小的n.月亏v.衰落( wane的现在分词 );(月)亏;变小;变暗淡 | |
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mere
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hoarse
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punctuate
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| vt.加标点于;不时打断 | |
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veracity
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grumble
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| vi.抱怨;咕哝;n.抱怨,牢骚;咕哝,隆隆声 | |
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saucy
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tyrants
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| 专制统治者( tyrant的名词复数 ); 暴君似的人; (古希腊的)僭主; 严酷的事物 | |
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jubilee
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| n.周年纪念;欢乐 | |
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congregated
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| (使)集合,聚集( congregate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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dunes
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marsh
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marshes
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literally
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chirp
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| v.(尤指鸟)唧唧喳喳的叫 | |
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chirping
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| 鸟叫,虫鸣( chirp的现在分词 ) | |
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gnats
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| n.叮人小虫( gnat的名词复数 ) | |
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rendezvous
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grassy
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| adj.盖满草的;长满草的 | |
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straightforward
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gathering
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northward
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cape
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| n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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prodigious
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immediate
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hawks
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| 鹰( hawk的名词复数 ); 鹰派人物,主战派人物 | |
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dense
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conjecture
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remarkable
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migration
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| n.迁移,移居,(鸟类等的)迁徙 | |
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intervals
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| n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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migrations
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ornithologist
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| n.鸟类学家 | |
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specimens
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specimen
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scanty
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lookout
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precisely
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fixed
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tryst
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bevy
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sketch
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noted
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diurnal
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stunted
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| adj.矮小的;发育迟缓的 | |
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perfectly
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throngs
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| n.人群( throng的名词复数 )v.成群,挤满( throng的第三人称单数 ) | |
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complement
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ornithology
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uncertainty
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naturalists
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wrens
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| int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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