a very large white bird with long wings that lives in the Pacific and Southern Oceans 信天翁（白色长翼大海鸟，生活于太平洋和南大洋） 
- [usually singular] (formal)
a thing that causes problems or prevents you from doing something 惹麻烦的事；苦恼；障碍 The national debt is an albatross around the president’s neck. 国债是总统的一大包袱。
Word Originlate 17th cent.: alteration (influenced by Latin albus ‘white’) of 16th-cent. alcatras, applied to various seabirds including the frigate bird and pelican, from Spanish and Portuguese alcatraz, from Arabic al-ġaṭṭās ‘the diver’.