The robin hopped about busily pecking the soil and now and then stopped and looked at them a little.
那只知更鸟跳来跳去，忙着啄土，时不时地停下来看看它们。
You could train a pigeon to peck for food but that's because pecking for food is a very natural response.
你可以训练鸽子啄食，但那是因为啄食是一种非常自然的反应。
After some more investigation, he discarded the stick and carried on pecking at the snake more confidently—apparently convinced that it wouldn't move.
经过一番查探之后，他扔掉棍子，更加有信心地啄着那条蛇——他确信它不会动。
It began pecking at the ground, looking for a worm to eat.
它开始在地上啄食，找虫子吃。
Motorists would rather pay more tax than lose the place in the corporate pecking order conferred on them by their company cars.
驾车者宁愿交更多的税，也不愿失去公司汽车赋予他们的公司地位。
Now there are 13 hens pecking around the yard.
现在这里有13只母鸡在园子里啄食。
Nor was she pecking and scratching in any of the nearby yards.
也没在附近的任何一家院子里抓抓啄啄。
Like many tribes, however, companies have a strict pecking order based on age.
但也正如很多家族那样，这些企业里也有以年龄为基础的严格的辈份等级。
It's very tight at the very top so a relatively small change can move the pecking order.
顶级学府的排名竞争相当激烈，因此即便相对较小的变化都会使名次产生变动。
And, sadly, the ability to exert force still determines the international pecking order.
可悲的是，实施能力仍然决定了国际权势等级。
Today's shorebirds shuffle along muddy flats pecking and probing for invertebrates to eat.
今天的滨鸟拖着脚走在泥泞的地面上，寻觅着可供食用的无脊椎动物。
Firms can, of course, recognise their own data and judge where they stand in the pecking order.
当然，公司可以辨认自己的资料并判断出自己在排名顺序中的位置。
Our HA task involved multiple applications with different pecking orders within the same cluster.
我们的HA任务涉及同一集群中具有不同优先顺序的多个应用程序。
Solution No. 3: Recognize that emerging markets are a constantly changing new-world pecking order.
解答三：意识到新兴市场的崛起秩序。
If they want to replace coal plants in the pecking order, though, they'll have to work all the time.
但如果风电厂想取代燃煤发电厂的主导地位，就必须全天候持续工作。
Did that feel a lot different given where you guys have been in terms of the top of the pecking order?
考虑到你们通常的排名都非常靠前，这次的排名，同以往相比是不是让你们感到有很大不同？
It seems envy at being lower in the social pecking order tarnishes the satisfaction of being well off.
你会嫉妒身处社会等级低下而使对自身富裕的满意度不屑一顾。
So, you could train a pigeon to peck for food but that's because pecking for food is a very natural response.
你可以训练鸽子啄食，但这只是因为啄食是种自然反应而已。
Are we looking here at one of the oldest of all status symbols; the expression of a social pecking order?
我们是否正面对着人类最古老的地位象征物品之一？代表着一个社会的尊卑秩序？
How galling then, for those down the pecking order, that the Numbers of people at the top are rising so fast.
于是，对那些位于长幼序列下方者而言，身处顶端之人数的快速增加将多么令人烦恼啊。
God designed chickens to make nests, lay eggs, raise their chicks and establish communities (the "pecking order").
上帝设计鸡筑巢，产卵，养育小鸡，建立社区(“啄食顺序”)。
But the dramatic changes in the pecking order mask a lack of more profound change in the system of finance itself.
然而金融界等级中出现的重大变化却恰好说明，整个世界金融体系需要更深层次的改变。
In a maneuver rarely seen and never before photographed, a raven snatches a chick by the leg after pecking into the egg.
既很少见到，又从未拍摄的一次演习中，一只乌鸦，啄食一只鹤蛋以后，再用它的下肢抓取了里面的没有出壳的小鹤。
You might think chickens are way down the pecking order in the animal kingdom when it comes to emotional intelligence.
也许在你看来，动物世界里按“情商”论资排辈的话，鸡类可能将名落孙山。
Two studies by management consultants show that they dramatically rearranged the pecking order of companies in many fields.
根据管理顾问的两项研究调查显示，很多行业都得以戏剧性地重新洗牌。
Still, LeBron is the superior player and the redundancy of their skill sets complicates the traditional 1-2 "pecking order.
当然了，在个人实力和能力上，勒布朗绝对是一个怪兽，从传统意义上来说的1、2名话，他依旧领先。
Still, LeBron is the superior player and the redundancy of their skill sets complicates the traditional 1-2 "pecking order."
当然了，在个人实力和能力上，勒布朗绝对是一个怪兽，从传统意义上来说的1、2名话，他依旧领先。
Even existing funds will find it hard to raise fresh capital unless they are at the very top of the industry's pecking order.
即使现存的基金也会发现募集新鲜的资金也会越来越难除非他们处在这个行业的前几名。
This is because the office is organized by pecking order. People with more years and experience are given more responsibility.
这是因为办公室的管理规则是以小鸡啄食的规则组织的，就是说年纪大的，经验多的人往往有优先权，被给予了更多的责任。
But Swedish newspapers have suggested that the birds had been pecking at salt on the road when they were run over by a passing lorry.
瑞典的报纸媒体却提供了另一种假设：当这些鸟在马路上啄着盐的时候被一辆路过的卡车给压过去了。
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