Gilbert White
/ˌɡɪlbət ˈwaɪt/
/ˌɡɪlbərt ˈwaɪt/
- (1720-93) an English naturalist (= a person who studies animals, birds, plants, etc.). He spent most of his life working as an assistant to a Church of England priest in Selborne, a village near Winchester in southern England, and wrote in great detail about the natural life of the countryside there. His best-known work is The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789).
吉尔伯特·怀特（Gilbert White）：（1720-93）英国博物学家。他一生的大部分时间都在英格兰南部温彻斯特附近的一个村庄塞尔伯恩（Selborne）担任英格兰教堂神父的助手，并详细介绍了那里乡村的自然生活。他最著名的作品是《塞尔伯恩的自然历史与文物》（1789年）。