Birds sing happily in the trees and swallows fly back.

鸟儿在树上欢歌，燕子飞回来了。

Dragonflies and swallows and nighthawks seine the air where the minute winged creatures flit out their minute life spans.

蜻蜓、燕子和夜鹰在天空中像围网似地捕食，而极小的有翼动物在空中轻快地飞来飞去，顷刻间其想暂的生命便结束了。

Who told you to investigate Sparrow? Talk!

谁叫审问小燕子的？说！

The bird's lights blink on and off.

这个燕子标志灯闪闪的。

In the early evening, the air was filled with graceful swallows.

初暮时，空中飞了体态幽雅的燕子。

If you want to know exactly where Egypt is, I suggest you ask a swallow.

如果想了解埃及的详细位置，我建议问只燕子。

The same is true of individual species such as the garden warbler, bullfinch and swallow.

相同的情况也适用于个别物种，如园林莺、红腹灰雀、燕子。

No way. I am engaged to a swallow.

没门。我与燕子订婚了。

It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in.

它是燕子喜欢筑巢的那种谷仓。

If you enter the barn, the swallows swoop down from their nests and scold.

进谷仓，燕子就会从它们的窝里飞下来责备。

European settlement took hold in 1776 with the construction of Mission San Juan Capistrano.

1776年，很多欧洲移民来到此地，并兴建了燕子教堂 (Mission San Juan Capistrano)。

Swallows are flocking together to fly south.

燕子正群集准备起飞向南方。

Then the birds disappear, as the swallows do with us, and seek some sheltered place.

那时候，这些鸟就都消失了。像燕子般，去寻找可以栖息的地方。

" Ah, there is the first swallow! " you say.

“啊，第只燕子来了！”说。

Then the whole family flew away together.

接着整个燕子家庭起飞了。

Ahead of them all ran the light-footed Swallow, springing from rock to rock.

步履轻盈的燕子从块岩石跳到另块岩石上，总是跑在最前面。

Such a thing had never happened to Swallow before.

燕子以前从没遇见过这种事情。

One tree swallow was in the nest and the other on guard outside.

只树燕子在窝里，另只在外面站岗。

Flocks of swallows, finches, and countless other birds feast on grass seeds and insects.

成群的燕子、雀类和无数其他鸟类以草籽和昆虫为食。

When she was serene she skimmed like a swallow, and that is how she was moving now.

平静的时候，她像只燕子，轻巧地掠过，正如现在这般。