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29 Bill makes a grand find
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29
Bill makes a grand find
The sky grew silvery in the east. Then a golden glow spread slowly upwards1, and the sea became amilky colour that gradually turned to gold.
Almost at once there came a crying of sea-birds as guillemots, gannets, cormorants2, puffins andgulls came from their roosting-places to greet the new day. Soon the sea around the children wasdotted thickly with hundreds of birds eagerly seeking fish for food. Huffin and Puffin joined them.
Jack3 gave an exclamation4 as he looked all round him. ‘This isn’t the lagoon-island. There wereno rocky cliffs to it like this, facing the sea. This is another island we’ve come to!’
‘Yes, it is,’ said Philip. ‘One I don’t remember to have seen before. Blow! Where are we?’
‘I should think it must be the island we once noticed on the chart,’ said Lucy- Ann,remembering. ‘The Isle5 of Wings. Just look at the mass of birds on the waters round us! It’s morethan we’ve ever seen before!’
‘Extraordinary!’ said Bill, amazed. ‘There must be millions of birds. Some of them are so closethat they bob against each other.’
Not only the sea was full of birds, but the air too, and the screaming and calling was deafening6.
Soon one bird after another flew up from the water with fish in its beak7. Huffin flew to the boat andpresented Philip with his usual beakful of neatly8 arranged fish.
‘Kiki’s very quiet,’ said Philip, looking at her. ‘What’s the matter with her? Kiki, put up yourcrest, you ridiculous bird!’
‘Send for the doctor,’ said Kiki mournfully. Jack looked at her closely. Then he gave anexclamation.
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1 upwards | |
adv.向上,在更高处...以上 | |
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2 cormorants | |
鸬鹚,贪婪的人( cormorant的名词复数 ) | |
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3 jack | |
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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4 exclamation | |
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5 isle | |
n.小岛,岛 | |
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6 deafening | |
adj. 振耳欲聋的, 极喧闹的 动词deafen的现在分词形式 | |
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7 beak | |
n.鸟嘴,茶壶嘴,钩形鼻 | |
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8 neatly | |
adv.整洁地,干净地,灵巧地,熟练地 | |
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9 crest | |
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖 | |
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10 screeched | |
v.发出尖叫声( screech的过去式和过去分词 );发出粗而刺耳的声音;高叫 | |
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11 promptly | |
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14 awfully | |
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19 groaning | |
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20 fixed | |
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22 penetrate | |
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