Flocks are not fussy, so they are as likely to alight in a bush in a city park as on a rural hawthorn hedge.

鸟儿们并不挑剔，所以它们可能降落在城市公园中的灌木上，或是乡村的山楂树篱上。

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Birds would soar through it into the upper radiance, and hang on the wing sunning themselves, or alight on the wet rails subdividing the mead, which now shone like glass rods.

小鸟也会从雾气中飞出来，一直飞到高空中发光的地方，停在半空中晒太阳，或者，它们降落在把草地隔离起来的湿栏杆上，这时的栏杆闪闪发亮，像玻璃棒一样。

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The mildest of these is simply that these insects were named because they tended to alight on milk or cheese left unattended.

这其中，最温柔的一种解释很简单：它们喜欢落在没有罩好的牛奶或者奶酪上面。

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