Just as bat and bird wings evolved separately yet work using the same fundamental principles, numerical representation may have developed in many separate instances.

要知道，虽然蝙蝠和鸟类利用翅膀飞行的原理都一样，然而它们的翅膀却是沿着不同道路进化而来的。不同动物的识数能力也可能是在各种不尽相同的情况下分别进化出来的。

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With a flap of its wings, the bird was gone.

鸟振翅飞走了。

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The bird soared high, with outspread wings.

鸟儿展翅高飞。

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A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

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Haze drove on, leaving the man who has helped him: "The blinding white cloud had turned into a bird with long, thin wings and was disappearing in the opposite direction."

海斯继续开车，离开了那位帮助他的男人：,那朵亮白的云转变成了一只有这长而瘦的羽翼的小鸟的形状,消失在另一个方向“

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Ben decided to take the bird home and fix its broken wings so that it could fly again.

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He said if it hadn't been for the media, the print media and television, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings, a choir without a song.

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Yet they are far larger than the bird's wings, and shimmer with an iridescent glow.

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Across the desk, his wife Marie, 54, colours the wings of a bird she is painting onto a vase.

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