Then,the insect's bright wings stopped and it fell to the ground dead.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

You can train it to flap its wings to escape a situation but it's very difficult to get it to flap its wings for food.

你可以训练鸽子,通过扇动翅膀来脱离某个情境,但却很难通过训练鸽子扇动翅膀来进食。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Palestinians mainly... There are extremists or right-wings, let's say, in the Palestinian side right now.

但是巴勒斯坦人主要。,当然会有极端分子或是右翼，此时此刻，在巴勒斯坦这一方。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Voyager's long wings moved up and down as the winds changed.

VOA: special.2010.10.06

Can you make a novel, as he says in the essay, that will "sprout wings and grow claws" in secret in his mind? That's an image taken from the metamorphosis of the butterfly within the chrysalis.

你能够让一本小说，就像他在那篇文章里说的那样，会在他,脑海里秘密的“展开翅膀，伸出爪子“？，这是从蝴蝶羽化中,借鉴来的比喻。

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I mean, you know the wings go, and the air runs, and then the motor on the engine and it's a miracle how it gets up there and that is the way I used to explain the Greeks, because I had no better idea.

我的意思是,你知道机翼的作用,空气的流动,还有引擎上的发动机,飞机能飞起来,是个奇迹,我就是用这种方式来解释希腊历史的,因为我也没有更好的方法了

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