长羽毛

Muffled as the sound was by its passage through the church walls, Hester Prynne listened with such intentness, sympathised so intimately, that the sermon had throughout a meaning for her, entirely apart from its indistinguishable words.

她以自己的闪烁不定的光辉，使忧郁的人群欢快起来，就象是一只长着光彩夺目的羽毛的鸟儿跳来跳去，在幽暗的时簇中时隐时现，把一棵树的枝枝叶叶全都照亮了。

There has been no sign of the tiger since then, not even the cackling of the silver-hackled jungle fowl that usually signals a tiger's approach.

此后就没有了它的踪影，颈上长着银色羽毛，通常在老虎接近时会咯咯叫的原鸡也默不作声。

The long-eared owl can see and hear extremely well. The tufts on its head are not ears, they

长耳猫头鹰目明耳聪，头顶上的不是耳朵，而是它正在警觉时竖起的羽毛。

What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be?

长着这么鲜红羽毛的会是什么小鸟呢？

I first thought it was a pigeon, take a closer look slender legs, beak long and pointed, gray feathers with complex, and the body about the size of starlings.

我起先以为是一只家鸽，细看脚细长，喙尖长，灰白相杂的羽毛，和八哥的体形差不多大小。

How well do I remember her parlour half filled with the organ which her husband had built, and scented with a withered apple or two from the pyrus japonica that grew outside the house; the picture of the prize ox over the chimney-piece, which Mr Pontifex himself had painted; the transparency of the man coming to show light to a coach upon a snowy night, also by Mr Pontifex; the little old man and little old woman who told the weather; the china shepherd and shepherdess; the jars of feathery flowering grasses with a peacock's feather or two among them to set them off, and the china bowls full of dead rose leaves dried with bay salt.

我记得很清楚，她的一半被她丈夫制作的风琴占据着的客厅飘散着来自于长在房子外面的山茶树的烂苹果的味道。壁橱上面一幅获奖的牛的画像是Pontifex先生的作品；在一个雪夜一个男人举灯给一辆马车照明的幻灯，也是Pontifex先生的作品；一个小个子的老年男人和一个小个子的老年女人在谈论天气；中国的牧羊少年和牧羊少女；用一、两根孔雀羽毛点缀得花草坛子；装满凋零的用海盐干燥的玫瑰叶子中国碗。所有的东西都消失了，成为记忆。

One black chicken which the administrator could not catch, black as night and as silent, not even croaking, awaiting Reynard, still went to roost in the next apartment.

有一只黑羽毛的小鸡，没有给行政官长捉去，黑得像黑夜，静得连咯咯之声也发不出来的，在等着列那狐吧，它依然栖宿在隔壁房间里。

The most challenging is close reproduction of the ancient animal hair, the hair of mammoths and the farcical, cannibalism bird feathers and a saber-toothed tiger water after treatment.

而最具挑战性的是近距离再现远古动物的毛发，猛犸象的毛发长而纠结，食人鸟的羽毛和剑齿虎遇水后的处理。

I ran into a fully-fledged sea monster with an enormously long neck and rows of jagged teeth...

我曾经碰到一种海怪，它有着暴长无比的脖子和几排锯齿般的牙齿，而且全身长满了羽毛。

Any of numerous tropical and semitropical birds of the order Psittaciformes, characterized by a short hooked bill, brightly colored plumage, and, in some species, the ability to mimic human speech or other sounds.

鹦鹉多种热带和亚热带鹦形目鸟类中的任一种，其特征是长有短钩喙，亮色羽毛，有些种类的鸟能模仿人的话语或其它声音

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。