n. [鳥] 潛鳥；無賴（loon的複數形式）
Late evening dew glistened on every bush and soon the loons' call would resound across the water.
再晚些，灌木上的露珠開始閃爍，不久，潛水鳥的叫聲就會在水面上回蕩起來。
A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him.
小男孩可以走向湖中，背靠小舟，自一岸緩緩漂向另一岸，周圍有鳥兒戲水，燕子翻飛。
A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him.
小男孩可以走向湖中，仰卧小舟。自一岸緩緩漂向另一岸，周遭有鳥兒戲水，燕子翻飛。
A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the 1 loons dived and the swallows dipped around him.
小男孩可以到湖塘那兒去，仰卧小舟中，自一岸緩緩飄向另一岸，周遭有潛鳥戲水，燕子輕盈地掠過湖面。
Against Type: Pleasence's casting in the Halloween series as the creepy but heroic Doctor Loomis stemmed a long sequence of films in which he played a series of mad professors and homicidal loons.
Against type：普利森斯在月光光心慌慌系列中扮演的角色，即讓人害怕又英勇的醫生盧米斯，跟風了無數的不是瘋子教授就是殺人狂的電影。
loons（單數形式：loon）是英語名詞，主要有以下兩層含義：
指潛鳥科（Gaviidae）鳥類的複數形式。這類水鳥分布于北半球，特征包括：
物種示例：
權威參考：
康奈爾大學鳥類實驗室（Cornell Lab of Ornithology）鳥類數據庫
指行為古怪或精神異常的人（含貶義）。該用法源于16世紀英語，借潛鳥夜間凄厲叫聲類比人的瘋癫狀态。
示例：
"They thought he was a loon for quitting his stable job to pursue art."
（"他們認為他放棄穩定工作去追求藝術是瘋了。"）
詞源參考：
牛津英語詞典（Oxford English Dictionary）詞源學條目
在生态保護領域，部分潛鳥物種（如黃嘴潛鳥）因栖息地喪失被國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）列為近危或易危物種。
“loons”是“loon”的複數形式，其含義根據語境不同分為以下兩類：
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