But they do not (as, for example, lice do) live on their hosts continually. Once a bird fledges, therefore, it leaves its parasites behind.

但是它们不会一直寄生在它们的宿主身上(虱子才会)，当鸟儿羽翼丰满时，鸡蚤就会离开。

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I always image that if I were a bird, I can do many things that I can't do nowadays.

我总是想象如果我是一只鸟，我就可以做很多现在不能做的事情了。

youdao

Is the first bird or egg, you do not know, I do not know, only the birds know.

是先有鸟还是先有蛋，你不知道，我不知道，只有鸟知道。

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Last time I checked, bird-watching didn't do much to improve one's fitness.

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Now that translates rather amusingly, Richard III is rhyming slang for bird, bird is prison slang for length of sentence - what it means is don't do your sentence twice over.

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