It's possible the insect-eating martins helped to control pests living around Native American camps.

答案可能是这些紫燕捕食昆虫，帮助了美洲土著居民控制营地周围的昆虫数量。

There they were, the longed-for purple martins, sailing gracefully around the bird house, singing as they sailed.

他们就在那里，渴望已久的紫燕，优雅地绕着鸟屋航行，一边航行一边唱歌。

Martins said, Have you ever visited the children's hospital?

马丁斯说你去过儿童医院吗？

Costa said he created early models based on images of Martins' hands.

科斯塔称，早期模型是根据马丁斯双手的图片制作的。

The swallows are the first to return to us; the martins follow: and they always keep the same order.

雨燕最先飞回来；随后是家燕：它们总是以这样的顺序回来。

They passed out of the car and he put his hand again on Martins' elbow.

他们走出座舱，哈里再次把手放在马丁斯的胳膊肘上。

The purple martin became an unofficial mascot for native inhabitants in the eastern half of the continent.

在大陆的东半侧，北美洲紫燕在当地居民眼中是一种吉祥物。

This included species that get more Google searches than expected, such as the ruffed grouse and purple martin.

这个类别包括比预期得到更多谷歌搜索的鸟类，如松鸡和紫色马丁。

There are four different species of swallow which visit us-the swift, the chimney swallow, the house martin, and the sand martin.

我们见到的燕子有四种——褐雨燕、烟囱雨燕、家燕和崖沙燕。

In particular, he found himself rebutted on a wide range of issues by one of his colleagues, professor martin.

特别是他发现同事马丁教授在很多问题上反驳他。

I asked Miss Lou if she knew the Martins.

我问卢小姐她是否认识马丁一家。

I thought you'd still be in london, helping jenny set up at saint martins.

我以为你还在伦敦 帮着Jenny在圣马丁收拾呢。

Martins said he has received more than 100 devices in the last 50 years as possible solutions to his hand problems.

马丁斯称，在过去的50年里，他收到了超过100种设备，作为解决他手部问题的可能方法。

This special relationship between purple martins and people is one of the few in North America to cross cultural boundaries between native groups and European settlers.

人类与紫燕这样的一种特殊关系仅是北美本土种族和欧洲外来者的文化交融关系之一。

There is not a sound in nature so cheering and animating as the song of the purple martin, and none so well calculated to drive away melancholy.

自然界里没有哪种雨燕的歌声如此欢快和容易模仿，没有谁听到这种美妙的歌声还能将忧愁挂在心上。

It's the old martin house, but I've stopped up the door and made the roof open, so it will hold all sorts of things, and save our valuable time.

这本来是一只旧的燕巢，但是我把门堵塞了，使屋顶敞开，因此它可以容纳各种东西，并且节约我们宝贵的时间。

The next spring, with the reappearance of the martins, came four, which familiarly flew into the chamber, visited all the walls, and expressed their recognition by the most clamorous twitterings of joy.

第二年春天，随着燕子迁徙归来，四只燕子熟悉地飞到那个房间的窗口，在墙上飞来飞去，唧唧喳喳地，显得非常熟悉。

Four brothers had watched with indignation the felonious attempts of a sparrow to possess himself of the nest of a house martin, in which lay its young brood of four unfledged birds.

四兄弟愤怒地看到一只麻雀试图夺取一只燕子的巢窠，里面有四只羽翼未丰的小燕子。