单词	albatross
释义	albatrossal‧ba‧tross /ˈælbətrɒs $ -trɒːs, -trɑːs/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINalbatross Origin: 1600-1700 Probably from alcatras type of water bird (16-19 centuries), from Portuguese or Spanish alcatraz ‘pelican’, from Arabic al-gattas ‘the diver’; 2 from the dead albatross that brought bad luck to the sailor who killed it in the poem The Ancient Mariner (1798) by S. T. Coleridge Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently? Her youth was a rock round her neck, her albatross. In the year before Gould's arrival a thousand albatrosses were killed on Albatross Island alone. It was too rough to fish, and our only companions were the albatrosses. The albatrosses, however, remained. Their wingspan exceeds that of an albatross. We identified two different types of albatross, four species of petrel, and a tern. You share it with dolphins and whales and albatrosses and the lonely satellite orbiting overhead. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► an albatross (around your neck) The project became a financial albatross for the city. But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system. Their wingspan exceeds that of an albatross. 1[countable] a very large white sea bird2an albatross (around your neck) something that causes problems for you and prevents you from succeeding:  The issue has become a political albatross for the government.
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