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whippoorwill n.【鳥類】北美蚊母鳥。

whippy

“ say , tom - they say a stray dog come howling around johnny miller s house , bout midnight , as much as two weeks ago ; and a whippoorwill come in and lit on the banisters and sung , the very same evening ; and there ain t anybody dead there yet . “ well , i know that “喂,我說湯姆,聽他們講,大約兩個星期前,有只野狗半夜圍著約翰尼米勒家叫同一天晚上,還飛來一只夜鷹落在欄桿上叫個不停,不過并沒有誰死啊。 ”

Peter warne : i ' m the whippoorwill that cries in the night . i ' m the soft morning breeze that caresses your lovely face 皮特:我是在夜晚啼叫的夜鷹,我是清晨輕撫你可愛面頰的清風。

It was dusk, the whippoorwills had already begun . 正是黃昏時分,怪鴟也早已叫了起來。