The thinking here is that when someone’s ego needs stroking it’s as if you were flattening down their raised hackles or smoothing their feathers.

这里的想法是，当某人需要培养自尊心，他们就会设想仿佛有人正在抚平他们的羽毛，平复他们的怒气。

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The thinking here is that when someone's ego needs stroking it's as if you were flattening down their raised hackles or smoothing their feathers.

这里的想法是，当某人需要培养自尊心，他们就会设想仿佛有人正在抚平他们的羽毛，平复他们的怒气。

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Dazzling girls strutted down the catwalk, wearing startling creations of gauze, or velvet, or feathers, or not much at all.

那些为人惊叹的设计，无论是薄纱,天鹅绒,羽毛还是有限的材质他都驾轻就熟，美丽耀目的模特们穿着他的作品在T台上昂首阔步,个个神采奕奕。

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"There's a very clear rim of feathers running down the top of its head like a Mohican, all the way along its back, " Professor Benton described.

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C. describe northerners cruising down mountains clad in garb made with feathers (an early version of ski pants).

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The feathers of Yutyrannus were more like the fuzzy down of a modern baby chick than the stiff plumes of an adult bird.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES