He loved watching dogs flush a covey.

他喜欢看爱犬追逐被惊飞的野鸟。

A covey of terns alighted on the Nautilus.

群海燕落到诺第留斯号上面，被我们捕获了。

1079--Mr Bennet will be vastly happy to oblige and will save the best coveys for you.

我相信他定非常乐意让你来 而且会把最好的鹧鸪都留给你。

Four miles beyond the Creek there is a mystery covey on Guthrie's land that always outwitted even the Major.

在溪外四英里处， 格思里的土地上有个神秘的小队， 即使是少校也总是以智取胜。

But the birds I have downed would not make a respectable covey.

但是我打倒的鸟不会成为个体面的小队。

Upon this, the boy crossed over; and walking close up to Oliver, said, 'Hullo, my covey!

男孩就样过去了； 走近奥利弗，说，‘你好，我的伙伴！

The craft and its companions settled into the basin like a covey of birds coming to nest.

艘船和它的伙伴们像群鸟儿来筑巢样安顿在盆地里。

The enormous covey has been known to them for years.

多年来，他们直都知道支庞大的队伍。

A covey of quail lives the year around in my grove and I think of them as co-inhabitants.

群鹌鹑年四季都生活在我的树林里， 我为它们是同居者。

A covey of quail explodes like a pan of popcorn popping and I can recognize the spasmic scattering far across the grove.

群鹌鹑像锅爆米花样爆开，我能整个树林远处的痉挛。

A covey of quail has lived for as long as I have owned the place in a bramble thicket near the hammock.

自从我在吊床附近的荆棘丛中拥有个地方以来， 群鹌鹑就直存在。

Like a covey of snipe over a marsh, there rose underfoot schools of unusual fish from the genus Monopterus, whose members have no fin but their tail.

在我们走的路上，大群单鳍属的新奇鱼类，像沼泽地中的群群山鸡那样，飞般地哄起；种鱼没有其它的鳍，只有尾上的那支。

The Major and I came on that covey again and again, knowing about where we should find it at any given time of the day.

少校和我次又次地乘坐那辆马车， 知道在天中的任何特定时间我们应该在哪里找到它。

We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank.

群鹌鹑躲在悬着树枝的高高的堤岸下，被我们惊飞了，我立刻举枪击落两只。

Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush.

有几只仍然栖息在树上，其他大部分都钻进了灌木丛。要想把它们赶来，你得在生长着灌木丛的土地上跳几下。

A covey of quail passed me often, so that I came to know their trail into the blackberry thicket where they gathered in a circle for the night, making small soft cries.

群鹌鹑经常从我身边经过，所以我知道了它们进入黑莓丛的踪迹，它们在那里围成圈过夜，发轻柔的叫声。

If it flew farther, it was a greater distance than any covey has been known to fly, for we made wide arcs and circles with the indefatigable Steve and found no trace of it.

如果它飞得更远， 那将比已知的任何小队都飞得更远， 因为我们与不知疲倦的史蒂夫绕了大圈， 但没有发现它的踪迹。

" It's really not so frightful to shoot them, " I told her, " for if a covey isn't shot into and broken up, it stays together and the quail don't mate that year" .

“射杀它们真的没有那么可怕，”我告诉她，“因为如果队没有被击中并被打散，它就会保持在起，而鹌鹑那年也不会交配。”