1·The Japanese yesterday took complete control at Shanghai, sank with all hands one of our small river gunboats, the Petrel, and seized an American gunboat.
日本昨天完全控制了上海，击沉了我方1艘水手满员的小型内河炮艇海燕号，并夺取了另外1艘美国炮艇。
2·A nurse is a storm petrel in the roaring wind and endless sea waving her wings courageously and vigorously while struggling against the sever environment.
护士是一只海燕，大海茫茫，风声阵阵，振翅昂扬，同险恶的环境拼搏。
3·A petrel does not dig a burrow where it does because of the average temperature or wind speed on the island but because of how warm or windy it is at that particular spot.
海燕并不会由岛上的平均温度或风速，来决定应该在哪里挖掘洞穴，而是根据特定地点的暖度与风速而定。
4·A bird, such as a petrel or an albatross, that frequents the ocean, especially far from shore.
尤指远离海岸，栖息在海洋上的鸟，例如海燕或信天翁。
5·Between the clouds and the sea proudly soars the stormy petrel, as a streak of black lightning.
在乌云和大海之间，海燕像黑色的闪电，高傲的飞翔。