vultures

Amid grey mounds of dusty rocks we were able to see Egyptian vultures and steppe eagles.

在布满尘埃的灰色岩石山丘上，我们看见了埃及秃鹫和草原鹰。

Farmers in parts of Europe are to be allowed to resume the practice of leaving dead livestock in their fields for vultures to feed on.

欧洲部分地区的农场主已被允许恢复将死牲畜抛弃野地的习惯，以供秃鹫食用。

As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable.

你晓得，那些债主象兀鹰一般歇在树枝上，伺机对任何有价值的东西飞扑下来。

However, when I'm out on the boat, horse flies will descend like vultures.

出去划船的时候，马蝇就会象秃鹰一样俯冲下来。

When asked why, the villagers often fly into a rage stating that if celestial burial is followed, vultures would not come.

问起原因，村民们激动地说如果举行天葬，秃鹫们都不会来。

The Griffon Vultures circle overhead, observing all this, knowing their timing has to be 'just right, ' they begin their group descent.

鲁氏秃鹫在空中盘旋，观察着这一切，知道它们的时机必须“恰当”，他们开始成群地下降。

Asian vultures have declined rapidly over the last eight years due to the use of a livestock drug called diclofenac.

由于使用名为diclofenac的家畜药物，亚洲秃鹰的数量在近八年来极具下降。

Jackals and hyenas are the scavengers of the land whereas vultures are the undisputed scavengers of the air.

胡狼和鬣狗是陆地上的食腐者，而秃鹫则毫无疑问是空中清道夫。

At the time, she called them a "pack of vultures" . Now she prefers to see them as "rescuers" .

那时，麦考维把他们称之为“一群贪婪成性的秃鹫”，而现在她却喜欢把他们叫做“拯救者”。

The centre is intended to create a secure breeding-stock of vultures that may eventually be released into a diclofenac-free wild.

这个养殖中心是为了给兀鹫创造一个安全繁殖群，也许它们最终会被放生到没有使用双氯芬酸的野外。

The master lights aromatic plants for smoke, smoke used as a signal to cinereous vultures, and cut the body into pieces.

天葬师煨桑生烟，烟是用来给秃鹫信号，然后切割尸体。

Most impressive, though, was a pair of lappet-faced vultures, which have a wingspan of 10ft and are the largest birds in Oman.

印象最深的是一对面部下垂的秃鹫，翼展竟有10英尺，是阿曼最大的猛禽。

Vultures are now vanishing across Africa as well, denying lions and other animals the crucial ability to follow circling birds to carcasses.

目前非洲大陆的秃鹫也正在消亡，狮子和其他动物因而无法循着盘旋的鸟群的踪迹找到尸体，而这对于那些动物而言至关重要。

Dogs feed on it, jackals, wolves, & worms. Crows & vultures feed on it, along with any other animals there.

狗、豺、狐狸、蛆虫、乌鸦、兀鹰和其他生物都来吃它。

At the moment it has 124 vultures, most of them trapped as nestlings in the past two years.

当时已经有124只兀鹫在这里养殖，它们大多数都是在过去两年里捕获的幼雏。

But the retreat had been hurried and the vultures and the good Samaritans would have to look to the dead.

但是他们需要被埋葬，秃鹫和那些行善乐施的好心人都会来看望他们。

Since then, engineers have tracked vultures as a routine part of launch by taking pictures of the launch area from two different angles.

从那时起，工程师通过从发射场的两个不同角度拍摄照片跟踪秃鹫成为了发射过程中例行公事的一部分。

But one poisoned carcass can kill up to 150 vultures, when they swoop in to pick up the remains.

但一只被投毒的家畜尸体同样吸引盘旋俯冲落下撕食腐肉的秃鹫，它最多能够毒死150只秃鹫。

After a signal is sent off, the ravenous vultures swoop down and peck at the flesh and the bones scattered around.

发出信号后，饥饿的秃鹫俯冲下来啄食尸肉和散落在周围的骨头。

the vultures, bare-necked, heavy, sat on the top of the tree waiting for the carrion to come floating down the river.

脖子光光的秃鹫们，身形沉重，栖息在树顶上，等着动物的腐肉沿河漂下。