1. 公共查询·英语单词大全

1. 信天翁式：美国空军第31搜救中队SA- 16A信天翁式(Albatross)水陆两用飞机(编号51-009)从菲律宾克拉克基地飞来救援,中国通过无线电警告美机离开(前面也向英军桑德兰飞机警告过),机长Jack Woodyard上尉未予理会.

2. [鸟]信天翁, 沉重负担：video preamplifier 视频预放器 | albatross [鸟]信天翁, 沉重负担 | erection seat 装置座

1. 信天翁
    An albatross is a very large white seabird.

2. 沉重的负担；无法摆脱的苦恼；障碍
    If you describe something or someone as an albatross around your neck, you mean that they cause you great problems from which you cannot escape, or they prevent you from doing what you want to do.

    e.g. Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.
           私有化可能会成为该执政党一个难以摆脱的政治障碍。

1. large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings
    noted for powerful gliding flight

    Synonym: mollymawk

2. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps

    e.g. she was an albatross around his neck

    Synonym: millstone