One by one, each of the eight birds pulled sharply upward into a full loop and flew all the way around to a dead-slow stand-up landing on the sand.
八只海鸥,一个接一个,陡直向上跃升,翻了个斤斗,又兜了个圈子,以极慢的速度,直立着降落在沙滩上。
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The conventional wisdom is that the Spanish, upon landing in the Caribbean, used the word barbacoa to refer to the natives' method of slow-cooking meat over a wooden platform.