The team made a skeleton, covered the bones with a clay body, and added plumage made of pheasant feathers trimmed to match impressions preserved in fossils.

团队制作了一个骨架，骨架上覆盖着和骨头和粘土肉体，再添加上翅膀，翅膀是由雉鸡羽毛制作的，羽毛经过修剪来符合化石中保留的印记。

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Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.

壤土是由大约等份的黏土、沙和粉砂合成的。

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David Haskell created artificial nests with clay eggs and placed them on the ground beside a tape recorder that played the begging calls of either tree-nesting or of ground-nesting warblers.

David Haskell 制作了一些盛有泥蛋的人造鸟巢并把它们放在地面上，旁边有一个录音机，播放着树莺或地面莺的的乞食叫声。

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When he made a trip to Kentucky, he made it clear that he did not want to meet with Clay.

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He's much more down to earth. He forms the human like a potter working with clay.

这个上帝更现实，他创造人类,就像陶瓷匠制瓷一样。

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For example, one thing that could happen is that you build it up with wood and clay, you pick the wrong material for a bridge, and it will not stand up to the forces of nature.

例如,其中的一个问题是,选择了木头和粘土作为造桥的材料,你就选错了材料,这座桥难以与自然力相抗衡

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For example, in the old days they might have spent three months coming up with a clay model.

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He was fiddling with a clay model of an early successor to the E-type when company founder Sir William Lyons walked by.

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In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.

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