" 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。”

The birds I had heard, whose harsh cries had sounded like a rusty pump, were great American bitterns.

我听到的鸟儿，它们刺耳的叫声听起来像生锈的水泵，是很棒的美国卤水。

So we look at all of the possible herons in Florida, and we match it up perfectly with an American bittern.

因此我们查了所有可能在佛罗里达的苍鹭，接着我们就把它和美国麻鸭匹配上了。

Clouds of birds were constantly alighting in them and rising from them again-duck, snipe, bitterns, herons.

成群的鸟儿不断地在其中起降——有鸭子、鹊、苍莺。

Some might be kind of " bittern" about it but that's " eggretable" and more than we can " dove" into right now.

有些人可能对此感到“苦乐参半”，但这种情况可能是“令人遗憾的”而且比我们现在可以“深入”的还多。

It was not till the end of half an hour that two figures were seen above the parapet of the dreary old pile, motionless as bitterns on a ruined mosque.

直到半小时结束，才看到两个人影出现在阴沉的旧堆的栏杆上方，一动不动，就像一座破败的清真寺上的卤水。

It was called The Golden Child and it was a huge open-air salon through which no less than two hundred bitterns who told the time with a deafening cackling strolled at will.

它被称为金童，是一个巨大的露天沙龙，不少于两百只用震耳欲聋的咯咯声报时的卤水在其中随意漫步。

I see them pass, I hear the calls of those that are articulate, such as the great bittern and the curlew, but I know from books only a few details of their living.

我看到它们经过，我听到那些能说会道的动物的叫声，比如大麻雀和麻鹬，但我从书本上只知道它们生活的一些细节。