英语释义

• a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces

片语

Canaries drift北大西洋洋流的南支流

Yellow Canaries费伦巴治体育会

Canaries Island加那利群岛

Dead Canaries生死关头

canary islands加那利群岛；金丝雀群岛

Climate Canaries气候金丝雀

Crested Canaries冠金丝雀

the Canaries金丝雀

Stack Canaries栈金丝雀保护

canary yellow淡黄色的

英汉例句

• But the minute we heard the canaries singing, we changed our minds.

  可是一听到那金丝雀的歌声，我们就改了主意。

• As often before, birds are acting like the canaries in a mine shaft and giving us early warning of dangerous change.

  和以往一样，鸟类的反应正如‘煤矿里的金丝雀’，提前给我们鸣响警钟。

• According to Urban Legends, deep Fried canaries were the hangover cure of choice for the Ancient Romans.

  根据都市传说，油炸金丝雀是古罗马人的用来治愈宿醉的方法。

• They are, quite literally, the canaries in the coal mine.

  打个比方，他们就是煤矿里的金丝雀。

• MINERS and their canaries are used to thinking of natural gas as a potentially deadly impediment to digging up coal.

  煤矿工人和他们的金丝雀通常把瓦斯（开采煤矿时产生的一种气体，有毒易爆）作为他们挖掘煤炭时潜在的最致命的障碍物。

• At that time it was not very easy to import canaries from foreign countries, because of logistic and economic difficulties.

  那个时候从国外进口金丝雀不是很容易的事，因为逻辑上和经济上的困难。

• Nor is shale gas the only new sort of reserve: 「tight gas」 in sandstones and coal-bed methane (the sort of gas that used to kill canaries down mines) are also promising.

  不是只有页巖气是一种新的储备能源：在砂巖中的「致密地层天然气」还有在煤层里的甲烷(一种能在矿井里杀死金丝鸟的气体)也十分有前景。

• It「s sort of like canaries in the coal mine - they are crying out and saying, 」I「m changing here, I」m changing the genes that I turn on and off in response to this environmental stress.「

  这有点像矿井中的金丝雀——这些细胞们正在叫喊：‘我正在改变。我的基因正在不断的变化来适应环境的改变。’

• But it」s exactly what is required for polar bears, ring seals, and the snowy-white beluga whales — the highly vocal canaries of the sea.

  而那正是北极熊、环纹海豹和海洋高音金丝雀——雪白的白鲸所需求的。

• There was a man around last year selling canaries cheap , but I don’t know as she took one ; maybe she did .

  去年附近有个男人卖金丝雀，挺便宜，可我不知道她买了没买；也许她买了一只。

• In the early days of underground coal mining, pit canaries often had short but valuable lives.

  早期地下采煤的时候，矿井中的金丝雀常常拥有短暂而有价值的一生。

• Unless we want to be canaries in the coal mine of each new addiction—the people whose sad example becomes a lesson to future generations—we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how.

  （注释3）如果不想成为新诱惑的祭品——为后代提供伤心的例子——我们就得靠自己——明白逃离的对象和方法。

• The cellular detox failure this deficiency causes can make these patients canaries to their environment.

  细胞排毒没有这方面的不足的原因可以使这些患者的金丝雀他们的环境。

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