Every bird had disappeared except a few petrels, friends of the storms.

除了暴风雨的朋友海燕外，其他的鸟儿都不见了。

These were petrels, cape pigeons, or puffins, and their calls were deafening.

这海燕、棋鸟海，它们吱吱喳喳的叫声震得我们耳聋。

Beyond, a stark silence reigned in this desolate natural setting, a silence barely broken by the flapping wings of petrels or puffins.

其次，在这凄绝荒凉的自然，那野得可怕的寂静，就那海燕海的振翅声也没有能把它打破。

General Gordon and his family had graciously accepted, Alexander Stephens would be present if his ever-uncertain health permitted and even Bob Toombs, the stormy petrel of the Confederacy, was expected.

戈登他一家亲切地表示接受，亚历山大·斯蒂芬斯也答应只要他那一直不稳定的健康状况允许就一定出席。甚至连鲍勃·图姆斯，这个给南部联盟到处惹事的人，也说要来的。

From the lounge, where I was writing up the incidents of this excursion to the polar continent, I could hear the calls of petrel and albatross cavorting in the midst of the turmoil.

我在客厅写我这次到南极大陆来旅行的事件，从厅听到在大风雪间飞翔上下的海燕信天翁的号叫。

So, Merri set out to find some answers using a database of CT scanned sternums from 105 different bird species, like the Red-capped lark, Leach's Storm petrel and the Southern cassowary.

因此，梅里开始利用105种不同鸟类的胸骨CT扫描数据库来寻找答案，这些鸟类包括红顶短趾百灵、白腰叉尾海燕双垂鹤鸵。