On the road, he met a sparrow that said to him, "Why are you so sad, my friend?"

在路上，他遇到一只麻雀对他说：“我的朋友，你为什么这么伤心呢？”

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If a Sparrow enters a house it is an omen of death to one who lives there.

如果麻雀进入房子，就表明这里的一个住户就要死去。

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I whipped through the woods the way a sparrow flies through the openings in a fence, without a thought, fold-ing up its wings at the right moment, gliding through.

我在林中飞驰，仿佛一只麻雀穿越篱笆间的空隙，不假思索就能在合适的时机收拢翅膀，飞翔而过。

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Perched on her seat, timid as a sparrow, she takes a look around at her fellow passengers.

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He was staring at the street while a sparrow sang in the trees above.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

Better yet, "On a radar, it looks like a sparrow, " says Martin, 57.

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