2 . To van Loon, human achievement mattered above all things.
对房龙来说, 人类的成就比一切都重要.
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3 . Why are loon hatchlings in Wisconsin emerging deformed from their eggs?
为什么维斯康新州的潜鸟幼儿从它们蛋中孵化就是畸形?
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4 . Van Loon did not shy away from controversial statements.
房龙并不回避富有争议的言论.
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5 . Van Loon participated in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1940 presidential campaign.
房龙参与了1940年法兰克林?迪拉诺?罗斯福的总统竞选活动.
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语源
late 19th cent.: from loon (referring to the birds actions when escaping from danger), perhaps influenced by loonymid 17th cent.: probably by alteration of Shetland dialect loom, denoting especially a guillemot or a diver, from Old Norse1960s: of unknown origin
英英释义网络释义常用俚语
noun
1.a worthless lazy fellow
2.large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
3.a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought