有一天，小鸟像往常一样外出收集用来烧火的小树枝时，碰巧在路上遇见他的表妹。

One day, while the bird was on his usual trip out to gather twigs for the fire, he ran into his cousin.

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他在年轻时选择到威斯康辛大学学心理学而不是在纽约学习法律，还娶了他的表妹Bertha Goodman，因而让家人深为不悦。

As a young man, he displeased them greatly by choosing to study psychology (at the University of Wisconsin) rather than law in New York, and by choosing to marry his cousin Bertha Goodman.

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“这是我的表妹，玛丽·伦诺克斯。”他说。

"This is my cousin, Mary Lennox," he said.

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