It's possible the insect-eating martins helped to control pests living around Native American camps.

答案可能是这些紫捕食昆虫，帮助了美洲土著居民控制营地周围的昆虫数量。

There they were, the longed-for purple martins, sailing gracefully around the bird house, singing as they sailed.

他们就在那里，渴望已久的紫，优雅地绕着鸟屋航行，一边航行一边唱歌。

The swallows are the first to return to us; the martins follow: and they always keep the same order.

雨最先飞回来；随后是家：它们总是以这样的顺序回来。

The purple martin became an unofficial mascot for native inhabitants in the eastern half of the continent.

在大陆的东半侧，北美洲紫在当地居民眼中是一种吉物。

There are four different species of swallow which visit us-the swift, the chimney swallow, the house martin, and the sand martin.

我们见到的子有四种——褐雨、烟囱雨、家沙。

His tabard is made of silk velvet and lined with an estimated 100 skins of Pine Martins from Russia.

他的罩袍由丝绒制成，内衬估计含有100张来自俄罗斯的松木马丁斯皮。

I thought you'd still be in london, helping jenny set up at saint martins.

我以为你还在伦敦 帮着Jenny在圣马丁收拾呢。

This special relationship between purple martins and people is one of the few in North America to cross cultural boundaries between native groups and European settlers.

人类与紫这样的一种特殊关系仅是北美本土种族欧洲外来者的文化交融关系之一。

And from London's famed art school, Central Saint Martins, students from different disciplines are generating new sustainable design practices from biological medium.

来自伦敦著名艺术学校中央圣马丁的学生们正在从生物媒介中产生新的可持续设计实践。

There is not a sound in nature so cheering and animating as the song of the purple martin, and none so well calculated to drive away melancholy.

自然界里没有哪种雨的歌声如此欢快容易模仿，没有谁听到这种美妙的歌声还能将忧愁挂在心上。

The next spring, with the reappearance of the martins, came four, which familiarly flew into the chamber, visited all the walls, and expressed their recognition by the most clamorous twitterings of joy.

第二年春天，随着子迁徙归来，四只子熟悉地飞到那个房间的窗口，在墙上飞来飞去，唧唧喳喳地，显得非常熟悉。

Four brothers had watched with indignation the felonious attempts of a sparrow to possess himself of the nest of a house martin, in which lay its young brood of four unfledged birds.

四兄弟愤怒地看到一只麻雀试图夺取一只子的巢窠，里面有四只羽翼未丰的小子。

The Saint-Martins went away in an automobile. Jean Daspry-that delightful, heedless Daspry who, six months later, was killed in such a tragic manner on the frontier of Morocco-Jean Daspry and I returned on foot through the dark, warm night.

圣马丁夫妇乘汽车离开了。让·达斯普里——那个令人愉快、粗心大意的达斯普里，六个月后，他在摩洛哥边境以如此悲惨的方式被杀——让·达斯普里我徒步穿越漆黑、温暖的夜晚返回。