I didn't realize when I befriended him that he'd turn out to be a cuckoo in the nest and steal my wife's affections.

我跟他以朋友往来时并没有意识到，他结果会成为第三者，会窃取我妻子的感情。

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The English cuckoo bird never builds her own nest. Instead, she lays her egg in a different mother bird's nest when that bird is away.

英国的布谷鸟从不搭建自己的巢，而是趁别的鸟妈妈离开时将自己的蛋下在她的窝里。

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The cuckoo explained with disdainfulness, “It’s literally a waste of time and stupid to stay in the nest and hatch eggs.

杜鹃不屑地说：“浪费大好时光，卧在巢里去孵雏，做那种事简直愚笨如猪！

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But many activists still regard him as a cuckoo in the nest.

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This Orwellian idea begs for us to see Clinton as Mildred Ratched, the control-freak nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest.

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On the other hand if Google is too soft, it would merely be feeding the Korean cuckoo in its nest.

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