albatrosses是什么意思？

albatrosses

• n. 信天翁，沉重负担( albatross的名词复数 )；

例句

• However , these vast distances increase the albatrosses'chance of encountering a fishing fleet. 也正是这样的长途跋涉增加了信天翁碰上捕鱼船的几率.
• Albatrosses drink salt water, as do some other sea birds. 信天翁喝咸水, 同其它一些海鸟一样.
• Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs. 雄性信天翁参与孵卵。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  信天翁
  An albatross is a very large white seabird.
• N-COUNT
  沉重的负担；无法摆脱的苦恼；障碍
  If you describe something or someone as an albatross around your neck, you mean that they cause you great problems from which you cannot escape, or they prevent you from doing what you want to do.
  例句
  Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party. 私有化可能会成为该执政党一个难以摆脱的政治障碍。