Plover

(noun.) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers.

巴罗录入

• If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Except these, the plover and the curlew are the only inhabitants until you come to the Chesterfield high road. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• As large, or nearly, as a plover's egg! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

校对:利昂