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。
母鸡啄食。
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。
However, one hen was sitting up and pecking at her own feathers.
然而，一只母鸡正坐着啄自己的羽毛。
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。
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。
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？
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。
SOCIAL animals are characterised by a pecking order derived from a complicated web of interactions.
社会动物具有存在尊卑次序的特点，这一次序是由相互作用的复杂网络决定的。
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？
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。
I shrugged and followed him outside, where two of my chickens were pecking diligently at the dry red earth.
我耸耸肩膀，跟着他出来了，我养的两只鸡，正在干燥的红土地上拼命地啄食。
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。
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。
The team stresses that it is the combination of the three, rather than any one feature, that keeps woodpeckers pecking without injury.
该小组强调，是三者结合，而非任何一个单独的特点，维持啄木鸟啄而不伤。
The main hall in front of the left and right two white Enta, groups of pigeons in the space between the two pecking pecking, laughing.
大雄宝殿前一左一右两座白色报恩塔，成群的鸽子在两塔之间的空地上啄食、嘻戏。
In Japanese companies which adopt a traditional pecking order based upon seniority, the older the age of an employee, the more he is paid.
日本企业采用在资历基础上的传统权势等级制度，职员年岁越长，薪水越高。
If the programmer thinks of the user as just another input device, it is easy to forget the proper pecking order in the world of software design.
如果程序员把用户仅仅当做是另一种输入设备，那么在软件设计中就很容易忘记正确的主次关系。
If the programmer thinks of the user as just another input device, it is easy to forget the proper pecking order in the world of software design.
如果程序员把用户仅仅当做是另一种输入设备，那么在软件设计中就很容易忘记正确的主次关系。
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