murmurate

词形变化

murmurated murmurates 三单 murmurates murmurating murmurating 现在分词 murmurated 过去式 murmurated 过去分词

释义与例句

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    Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.

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    By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.

    There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.