Through a telescope we watched the unfolding drama of a puffin on a ledge, peering over the edge, thinking better of it, retreating, advancing, retreating.

我们通过一架望远镜观察了停留在岩架上的一只海鹦：它在张望，思索，忽进忽退。

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In pursuit of flight, I'm also keeping my eye on the Puffin, a "personal air vehicle" that became an Internet sensation when NASA unveiled it in 2010.

在追寻飞行之梦的路途中，我也在密切关注“海雀”，那是NASA在2010年公布的“个人空中飞行器”，在公布伊始就在网络上引发了热潮。

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Although I was not a bird watcher my first glimpse of the adorable puffin won me over.

尽管我不是一名观察研究野鸟的学者，但是当我第一眼看到那可爱的海鹦，就被它迷住了。

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It is a fact of life that if you report that five million limpets died as a result of the Sea Empress oil spill, it will produce less public reaction than the sight of a single puffin looking a bit unsteady on its feet.

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He found it on Seal Island five years ago while visiting his brother, Andre, who was there as a volunteer working with Project Puffin--a nonprofit group seeking to right an environmental wrong perpetrated 100 years ago.

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This place, a nesting ground for the Atlantic puffin, is also at the centre of a long-rumbling border dispute between America and Canada.

ECONOMIST: An international grey area