He was indeed a silly loon, I thought.(我想,它真是一只愚蠢的潜水鸟。)
‘Common Loon’” he reads. “It looks like a duck.”(普通潜鸟”他读着,“看上去像鸭子。”)
Common Loon looks like a duck.(普通的潜鸟看起来像鸭子。)
Gerard van Loon thought that his father, had done "his best with material that basically bored him."(杰勒德?龙认为他父亲“在基本上令他觉得厌烦的素材上已经尽了全力”。)
I'm no loon.(我不是笨蛋。)
He said he misses you madly, like a loon, and that dinner tonight can't come too soon.(他说他现在非常的想念你,已经到了发疯的程度,今天的晚餐为什么不能再快一点到来呢。)
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。)
In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.(秋天里,潜水鸟(Colymbusglaclalis)像往常一样来了,在湖里脱毛并且洗澡,我还没有起身,森林里已响起了它的狂放的笑声。)
His struggle to understand and accept his father's limitations echoes our own: he gives us a reason not to write Walter off as a hopeless loon.(他努力去理解和接受父亲的缺陷,让我们深有同感。他给出了一个理由,使我们不至于把沃尔特当成毫无希望的疯子。)
A more serious charge against van loon was the sloppiness of his scholarship.(对房龙的一项更严肃的指控是他在学问上的马虎。)