A big white bird with very long thin red legs, a long red beak and black on its wings. It wades in shallow water for frogs and fish, and famously builds a huge untidy nest of sticks on a chimney or a church roof in Europe — many villages there are proud of their storks and count the day they come back each spring.

A big white bird一種大型白色的鳥 with very long thin red legs有很長很細的紅色腿 a long red beak長長的紅色鳥喙 and black on its wings翅膀上有黑色 It wades in shallow water for frogs and fish牠會在淺水裡涉水抓青蛙和魚 and famously builds a huge untidy nest of sticks on a chimney or a church roof in Europe而且以在歐洲的煙囪或教堂屋頂上築一個又大又亂的樹枝巢聞名 many villages there are proud of their storks and count the day they come back each spring那裡很多村莊都以自己的鸛鳥為傲，還會數著牠們每年春天回來的日子

The bird matters in English mainly for one story: parents used to tell small children that a stork brings new babies, dropping them down the chimney. So 'the stork is coming' or 'a visit from the stork' is a soft, slightly old-fashioned, joking way of saying a baby is on the way, and a stork with a cloth bundle in its beak is the standard picture on a card for a new baby.

The bird matters in English mainly for one story這種鳥在英文裡主要因為一個故事而重要 parents used to tell small children that a stork brings new babies以前爸媽會跟小孩子說新生的寶寶是鸛鳥送來的 dropping them down the chimney從煙囪把寶寶丟下來 So 'the stork is coming' or 'a visit from the stork'所以「the stork is coming」或「a visit from the stork」 is a soft, slightly old-fashioned, joking way of saying a baby is on the way是一種溫馨、有點老派、開玩笑說寶寶快出生的說法 and a stork with a cloth bundle in its beak is the standard picture on a card for a new baby而嘴裡叼著布包裹的鸛鳥，也是新生兒賀卡上的標準圖案

Not a common word in daily conversation — you meet it in children's books, nature programmes and that one joke.

Not a common word in daily conversation這不是日常對話裡常見的字 you meet it in children's books, nature programmes and that one joke你會在童書、自然節目，還有那個玩笑裡遇到它