He loved watching dogs flush a covey.

他喜欢看爱犬追逐被惊飞的野鸟。

We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank.

鹌鹑躲悬着树枝的高高的堤岸下，被我们惊飞了，我立刻举枪击落两只。

Like a covey of snipe over a marsh, there rose underfoot schools of unusual fish from the genus Monopterus, whose members have no fin but their tail.

我们走的路上，大单鳍属的新奇鱼类，像沼泽地中的山鸡那样，飞般地哄起；这种鱼没有其它的鳍，只有尾上的那支。

A covey of terns alighted on the Nautilus.

海燕落到诺第留斯号上，被我们捕获了。

Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush.

有几只仍然栖息树上，其他大部分都钻进了灌木丛。要想把它们赶出来，你长着灌木丛的土地上跳几下。

The enormous covey has been known to them for years.

多年来，他们直都知道这支庞大的队伍。

The craft and its companions settled into the basin like a covey of birds coming to nest.

这艘船和它的伙伴们像鸟儿来筑巢样安顿盆地里。

Upon this, the boy crossed over; and walking close up to Oliver, said, 'Hullo, my covey!

男孩就这样过去了； 走近奥利弗，说，‘你好，我的伙伴！

1079--Mr Bennet will be vastly happy to oblige and will save the best coveys for you.

我相信他定非常乐意让你来 而且会把最好的鹧鸪都留给你。

A covey of quail lives the year around in my grove and I think of them as co-inhabitants.

鹌鹑年四季都活我的树林里， 我认为它们是同居者。

But the birds I have downed would not make a respectable covey.

但是我打倒的鸟不会成为个体的小队。

A covey of quail has lived for as long as I have owned the place in a bramble thicket near the hammock.

自从我吊床附近的荆棘丛中拥有这个地方以来， 鹌鹑就直存。

Four miles beyond the Creek there is a mystery covey on Guthrie's land that always outwitted even the Major.

溪外四英里处， 格思里的土地上有个神秘的小队， 即使是少校也总是以智取胜。

A covey of quail explodes like a pan of popcorn popping and I can recognize the spasmic scattering far across the grove.

鹌鹑像锅爆米花样爆开，我能辨认出整个树林远处的痉挛。

If it flew farther, it was a greater distance than any covey has been known to fly, for we made wide arcs and circles with the indefatigable Steve and found no trace of it.

如果它飞更远， 那将比已知的任何小队都飞更远， 因为我们与不知疲倦的史蒂夫绕了大圈， 但没有发现它的踪迹。

" It's really not so frightful to shoot them, " I told her, " for if a covey isn't shot into and broken up, it stays together and the quail don't mate that year" .

“射杀它们真的没有那么可怕，”我告诉她，“因为如果队没有被击中并被打散，它就会保持起，而鹌鹑那年也不会交配。”

The Major and I came on that covey again and again, knowing about where we should find it at any given time of the day.

少校和我次又次地乘坐那辆马车， 知道天中的任何特定时间我们应该哪里找到它。