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The third used an anatomical technique— the dimensions of the mouthparts— that is also applied to the finches of the Galapagos Islands which, tradition has it, set Darwin thinking about the species problem in the first place .

第三种方式使用了一种解剖学技术——根据口器的尺寸，这种方式也曾被用于加拉帕哥斯群岛的雀类，传统观点认为正是这种分类使得达尔文首先考虑物种问题。

Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species : rooks finches sparrows tits warblers robins wrens swallows etc .

包含大约一半以上已知种类的最大；麻雀；山雀；鸣；知更鸟；鹪鹩；燕子；包含四个：润嘴；霸鹟；；鸣禽或雀。

Another year's instalment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles.

在新的一年里，鲜花、树叶、夜莺、画眉、金翅雀，以及诸如此类的生命短暂的生物，都出现在它们各自的岗位上了，仅仅在一年以前，这些位置都被其它的生物占据着，而它们不过只是一些胚芽和无机体的分子。

Old World finches: e.g. canaries and serins.

旧大陆云雀，如白玉鸟和金丝雀。

Leigh complained that the sparrows were brash and noisy, even vulgar in their pushiness, while the finches were elegant, peaceful, and melodious singers.

利抱怨说这些麻雀无礼又吵闹，简直是粗鲁的泼妇，而雀们都是优雅，宁静，声音动听的歌唱家。

Tits, warblers, pipits, finches, all were busy r anging from place to place, emitting their various notes now from the tree tops, then from near the ground; now close at hand, then far off; each change in the height, distance, and position of the singer giving the sound a different charac ter, so that the effect produced was one of infinite variety.

各种山雀、鸣禽、云雀以及其他鸟类都正在到处忙着寻找栖息的地方，它们唱着各种各样的歌，时而来自树顶，时而来自地面，时而逼近，时而遥远；而随着歌唱者的或远或近，或上或下，也给这些歌声本身带来不同的特点，这样所产生的效果自然就是有千万种声调，非常丰富。

Tits, warblers, pipits, finches, all were busy ranging from place to place, emitting their various notes now from the tree tops, then from near the ground; now close at hand, then far off

各种山雀、鸣禽、云雀以及其他鸟类都正在到处忙着寻找栖息的地方，它们唱着各种各样的歌，时而来自树顶，时而来自地面，时而逼近，时而遥远

Purple finches, yellowbirds , nuthatches, bluebirds,were in flocks or in couples and trios about the trees,more or less noisy and loquacious. About noon a

在午前，那些雪松鸟，紫雀，黄雀，五子雀，蓝知更鸟，成群结队地，或成对、三只为一组地在那些树的周围，发出些许噪音和喋喋不休的鸣叫。

After researchers discovered in 2004 that FOXP2 is expressed in the same areas of the brain in humans and zebra finches, a song-learning bird, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin began to investigate whether such birds could help scientists understand how humans learn language.

2004年研究者发现FOXP2在人类和班玛雀的大脑相同的部位表达。

All the cordon bleu finches died, still in their transition cages; maybe they were too cold during an unusually cloudy Arizona winter.

所有的蓝饰雀还在它们的过渡笼里就都死了，可能是它们没能挨过不寻常的亚利桑那州的冬天。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。