另有：endless / boundless… infinite power /energy 无穷无尽的力量/用之不竭的能量
albatross n. :信天翁 white seabird
direct vt. : 指向
Eg: He directed me the way to success. 他给我指明了成功之路。
Can you direct me to NOS? director 导演
sustenance n. :支撑力 sustain v.
Eg: The tree can’t sustain its branches. 这棵树支撑不了它的枝干了。
He has a big family to sustain. 他要养活一大家子人。
sustainable a. sustainable development strategy 可持续发展战略
glider n. :滑翔者
harness vt. :利用formal
use / make use of / utilize / exploit
harness solar energy 利用太阳能
to yield to 顺着，屈服于
submit to / give in to / surrender to
He yields to persuasion / despair / temptation.
Turtle submit to all kind of indignities.
school n. :类，群，队
多指 sea animal / fish / shoal school 流派； schools of thought 思想流派
One hundred flowers blossom and one hundred schools contend. 百花齐放，百家争鸣
boast vi. :自夸
endow vt.: 赋有
be endowed with He is endowed with gift/talent/power/strength/courage.
ply v. :不断地供给
bore vi. :穿越 to bore through the air. 穿越大气层
gale n. :大风
exhaustion n. : 精疲力竭
I am exhausted. / I am dead tired. / I am dog tired.
worn out / spend / waste / drained
humbler a. : 较低级的
原型：humble
I am a humble person.
He is humble before his boss.
源于 umble(from French): the meat of deer
eat umble pie = eat humble pie
lick the dust 卑躬屈膝
He eat humble pie. 他忍辱负重。
Lesson28
No two sorts of birds practise quite the same sort of flight; the varieties are infinite, but two classes may be roughly seen. Any ship that crosses the pacific is accompanied for many days by the smaller albatross, which may keep company with
the vessel for an hour without visible or more than occasional movement of wing. The currents of air that the walls of the ship direct upwards, as well as in the line of its course are enough to give the great bird with its immense wings sufficient
sustenance and progress. The albatross is the king of the gliders, the class of fliers which harness the air to their purpose, but must yield to its opposition. In the contrary school the duck is supreme. It comes nearer to the engines with which man has 'conquered' the air, as he boasts. Duck, and like them the pigeons, are endowed with steel-like muscles, that are a good part of the weight of the bird, and these will ply the short wings with irresistible power that they can bore for long distances through an opposite gale before exhaustion follows. Their humbler followers, such as partridges, have a like power of strong propulsion, but soon tire. You may pick them up in utter exhaustion, if wind over the sea has driven them to a long journey. The swallow shares the virtues of both schools in highest measure. It tires not nor does it boast of its power; but belongs to the air, travelling it may be six thousand miles to and from its northern nesting home feeding its flown young as it flies and slipping through a medium that seems to help its passage even when the wind is adverse. Such birds do us good, though we no longer take omens from their flight on this side and that, and even the most superstitious villagers no longer take off their hats to the magpie and wish it good-morning.