plover: [14] Etymologically, the plover is the ‘rain-bird’. Its name comes via Anglo-Norman plover from Vulgar Latin *ploviārius, a derivative of Latin pluvia ‘rain’ (source of French pluie, Italian pioggia, and Spanish Iluvia ‘rain’ and related to English flow). Various theories have been put forward as to how it came to be so called, among them that migrating plovers arrive in autumn, at the start of the rainy season; that plovers get restless at the approach of rain; and that some species have plumage spotted with pale marks, like raindrops. => flow, pluvial
plover (n.)
c. 1300, from Anglo-French plover, Old French pluvier, earlier plovier (c. 1200), from Vulgar Latin *plovarius, literally "belonging to rain," from Latin pluvia "rain (water)" from pluere "to rain," from PIE root *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Perhaps so called because the birds' migration arrival coincides with the start of the rainy season, or from its supposed restlessness when rain approaches.
雙語例句
1. The two ambulance attendants quickly put Plover on a stretcher and got him into the ambulance.
兩名救護人員迅速地將普洛弗放到擔架上抬進救護車里。
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2. He wondered if the plover was the fastest bird.
他想知道千鳥是不是最快的鳥.
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3. American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry.
美洲內陸水域和牧場的鸻,叫聲特別.
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4. It made landfall at Plover Cove reservoir at 3 pm.
(?風)于下午三時在船灣淡水湖登陸.
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5. Plover Cove Reservoir. The location of the Project is shown in Figure 1 of this Permit.