Was it a kingfisher? Some sort of woodpecker?

是翠鸟吗？或某种啄木鸟？

It's a gigantic 13-foot-high, 1,600 pound kookaburra.

这是一只巨大的、13英尺高、1600磅重的笑翠鸟。

The boss of Kingfisher Airlines fled to London in 2016 and is fighting extradition.

翠鸟航空(Kingfisher Airlines)的老板于2016逃到伦敦，目前正争取将其引渡回国。

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。

Here they are singing the Australian Nursery Rhyme Kookaburra.

现他们正演唱澳大利亚童谣" 笑翠鸟" 。

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! "

如今他们相再说什么“瞧，有只翠鸟！”或“嗨，风信子！”也再说“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忙碌，鹰头上盘旋。

That's a made-for-TV giggle that some say is actually the doctored call of a bird: the Australian kookaburra.

这种咯咯的笑声出自一部电视电影，有人说那实际上是用澳大利亚笑翠鸟的叫声伪造的。

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，随着它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.

我们看到了更多的淡紫色胸脯的佛法僧和一群巨大的南方地犀鸟，发现了一只带棕色兜帽（和橙色喙）的翠鸟，还听到了一只灰蕉鹃的叫声，正好及时发现了它。

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。

And perhaps most notable of all was the Kingfisher.

也许最引人注目的是翠鸟号。

Just then, the kookaburra flew through the sky, cackling.

就这时，笑翠鸟从天上飞过，咯咯地笑着。

There are more beautiful ones like a kookaburra.

还有更漂亮的，比如笑翠鸟。

We've got where the kookaburra sleeps, where the owl sleeps.

我们聊到了笑翠鸟的栖息地，也谈及了猫头鹰的安歇之处。

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 white pyramid in the distance compelled the mind's assent as passionlessly as a Euclidean theorem, and when at last the sun rose into a sky of deep delphinium blue, he felt only a little less than comfortable again.

远处的白色金字塔像欧几里得定理一样冷酷无情地强迫人们同意，当太阳终于升入深翠鸟蓝的天空时，他又觉得太舒服了。

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。