Was it a kingfisher? Some sort of woodpecker?

是翠鸟吗？或某种啄木鸟？

When she was frightened she darted noiselessly like a kingfisher.

受惊的时候，她像一只翠鸟，悄无声息地疾飞。

Some kingfishers lurked along the watercourses, but they didn't let us approach.

有些翠乌水流边飞来飞去，但们不让人接近，见人来就飞走。

And by now they had even stopped saying to one another, " Look! there's a kingfisher, " or " I say, bluebells! " or " What was that lovely smell? " or " Just listen to that thrush! "

如今他们相互间不再说什么“瞧，有只翠鸟！”或“嗨，风信子！”也不再说“那股可爱的香味是什么？”或“听听那只画眉！”

Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.

苍鹭岸边缓缓地迈着步子，翠鸟和杜鹃欢叫着从阳光里飞入树荫，火鸡模样的大鸟枯枝间忙碌，鹰头上盘旋。

Sam showed them where the kingfisher had his nest, in a hole in the bank by a stream.

萨姆领他们去看溪边的一个洞里的翠鸟窝。

" And of course with them went all the voles and the birdlife, including kingfishers and bitterns."

“当然，随着们一起消失的还有所有的田鼠和鸟类，包括翠鸟和鳽鹭。”

While most birds steered clear of the thing, he noted that it failed to deter kingfishers.

尽管多数鸟儿都会避开稻草人，但是拉格勒发现，稻草人对翠鸟没有震慑作用。

We saw more lilac-breasted rollers as well as a flock of enormous southern ground-hornbills, spied a brown-hooded (and orange-beaked) kingfisher and heard the cry of a grey go-away bird just in time to spot it.

我们看到更多的淡紫色胸脯的佛法僧和一群巨大的南方地犀鸟，发现一只带棕色兜帽（和橙色喙）的翠鸟，还听到一只灰蕉鹃的叫声，正好及时发现。

On the tips of other trees, long-tailed cormorants, Madagascan bee-eaters and kingfishers perched, looking for food.

其他树尖上，长尾鸬鹚、马达加斯加食蜂鸟和翠鸟栖息着，寻找食物。

Today we're looking for the one,   the only, the belted kingfisher.

今天我们要寻找的是唯一的一种带带翠鸟。

The bird-like tamias frisked about my feet everywhere among the pine-needles and seedy grass-tufts; cranes waded the shallows of the river-bends, the kingfisher rattled from perch to perch, and the blessed ouzel sang amid the spray of every cascade.

像鸟一样的鲇鱼我脚边的松针和肮脏的草丛中四处飞来飞去；起重机河湾的浅滩上涉水，翠鸟从一个栖息处跳到另一个栖息处，幸运的 ouzel 每一个瀑布的浪花中歌唱。

And the reason I know that is because female birds that breed in holes are often quite brightly colored, things like parrots or kingfishers or woodpeckers.

我知道这一点的原因于， 那些洞穴中繁殖的雌鸟通常色彩相当鲜艳，比如鹦鹉、翠鸟或啄木鸟。

And it lived alongside Longipteryx, a perching bird with a long snout that may have dove for fish from tree branches, like kingfishers do today.

并且与长翼羽鸟共存，长翼羽鸟是一种有着长嘴的栖息鸟，可能像今天的翠鸟一样从树上俯冲捕食鱼类。

These are feathers from a kingfisher, a bird that pretty famously spends a good portion of its life in water.

这些是翠鸟的羽毛，翠鸟是一种一生中大部分时间都生活水中的著名鸟类。

It was made from silver or gilded metal with Kingfisher feathers and a semi-precious stone in the middle.

由银或镀金金属制成，带有翠鸟羽毛，中间有一颗半宝石。

All of them looked. All of them saw it. " Kingfisher, " said Griff. " Her, or some other like her" . But he drew his sword again.

大家的目光都跟过去。大家也都看见。" 是‘翠鸟号’，" 格里芬道，" 或类似的撑蒿船。" 话虽这么说，但他又抽出长剑。

Do you know that picture of a kingfisher by Van Gogh?

你知道梵高画的翠鸟那幅画吗？

The kingfisher takes great  care of its weapon of choice.

翠鸟非常小心地选择的武器。

Well, I don't really see why a kingfisher needs to do that more than a sparrow, but, you know, maybe there's an idea there.

嗯， 我确实不明白为什么翠鸟需要比麻雀更强调这一点，但你知道， 或许这里面有些道理。