He made a clutch as startled as was the rise of the ptarmigan, and there remained in his hand three tail-feathers.

他惊慌地抓了一把，跟那只松鸡飞起时的慌张没什么两样，不过他只抓到了三根尾巴上的羽毛。

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Some instinct had startled them, and they turned their backs on the train and began to bounce away through the grass, their motion as graceful as any ballerina's.

可能是受到了惊吓，它们转身在草原上奔跑，动作像芭蕾舞演员那样优雅。

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Scientists expected to find as many as 100, 000 genes packed into the 3 billion bases of human DNA; they were startled to learn that there were fewer than 35, 000.

科学家们先前预计人类DNA的30亿个碱基对中有多达100 000个基因；可他们惊讶地发现只有不到35 000个。

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For someone as startled as I was by this evidence of maturity, it's a miracle.

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Chanderpaul's tempo remained unchanged until the 17th over when, as if startled into life with a cattle prod, he hit paceman Steve Harmison for a four and a six in the same over.

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Sometimes they're startled, as when the MPAA slapped the sad, thoughtful "Blue Valentine" with an NC-17, which meant it couldn't play in many theaters, be advertised in many newspapers or probably be nominated for Oscars.

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