heron

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The largest and most widespread heron in North America.
这种苍鹭在北美分布最广，而且个头最大。
The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.
黎族人争相向我兜售晚餐，全部是活的：白胸苦恶鸟，小白鹭，黑冠夜鹭，斑嘴鸭，这是唯一一种雌雄看起来都很像的鸭子。
A great blue heron searches for fish on the incoming tide at Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Florida, in 2009.
一只巨大的蓝苍鹭即将到来的潮汐中搜寻它的食物——鱼，摄于2009年佛罗里达州萨拉索塔的午后的沙滩。

The white heron smoothed its feathers and called to its mate, sitting on their nest in a nearby tree.
All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.
好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。
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Don't worry about how came about, Heron found this out.
别担心这是怎么来的，海伦发现了这个规律。
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Ms Mayhew stakes its viability as a financial centre on the outcome of the Heron inquiry.
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a large bird with long legs, a long neck and grey or white feathers that lives near water