I could not see clearly in the darkness last night, so I thought you were just an ordinary, darkish little bird. But your true color... it is a brilliant shade of blue.

我昨晚上没看清，所以我想你只是一只很平常的深色的鸟儿，但是你真正的颜色……居然是闪光的深蓝色！

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Willie, when I was feeding the birds just now, a little brown bird flew away with a crumb in its bill.

威利，刚刚我喂鸟的时候，一只棕色的鸟用嘴叼着一块面包屑飞走了。

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The Germans bring in these falcons and they go out and they munch the pigeons; and so this was another reason for them, just like the Germans, these poor little pigeons who became the sort of sacred bird, I guess a pigeon's a bird.

德国人带了很多隼到法国,用以捕杀信鸽,这是改用热气球的另一个原因,拜德军如此行为所赐,可怜的鸽子成为了圣鸟,我想鸽子是一种鸟吧

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"I like how little performance there is in a person chatting at a table or just in a bird song and how it can also contain such depth, honest, and real soul, " he says.

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