Visitors using canoes or airboats are likely to see large groups of wading birds like the wood stork or great blue heron.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.

好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。

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Don't worry about how came about, Heron found this out.

别担心这是怎么来的，海伦发现了这个规律。

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She was sure she would be able to see where the white heron had hidden its nest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

All she wanted to think about was what the stranger would say to her when she told him where to find the heron's nest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Sylvie could not speak. She could not tell the heron's secret and give its life away.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

"I would give ten dollars to the person who showed me where the white heron is."

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She remembered how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sun rise together from the top of the world.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

"I saw a white heron not far from here two days ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Sometimes a heron can be seen standing on one thin leg,motionless.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The psychologist Woodburn Heron wrote about this subject in his nineteen fifty-seven work The Pathology of Boredom. He said that the brain depends on having continuing information from the bodys senses.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

It's a very rare bird, the little white heron.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

My legs are just fine and dandy. I just sat next to heron that bus and had a conversationall the way to school.

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Each of the Heron drones costs about $10 million, depending on how it is equipped.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The Germans ordered a small fleet of the Heron drones from Israel Aerospace Industries to help prevent civilian casualties and friendly-fire incidents in the rugged Afghan terrain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

So that's the main reason why we have the Heron there." Israel is one of the pioneers of combat drones, having used the remote-controlled aircraft in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27