Sometimes the rook flapped his black wings and soared away over the tree-tops in the park.

有时，乌鸦会拍打着黑色的翅膀，飞过公园的树梢。

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Its crimson and black wings, backlit by the sun, seem to glow from within.

它那红黑相间的巨翅在太阳的照射下散发出华丽的光芒。

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The second time he passed before the sun, his black wings spread, and the world darkened.

第二次他从太阳下飞过，黑色的翅膀伸展开来，然后全世界都仿佛陷入了一片晦暗。

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It developed black wings, so that it was invisible when it settled on soot-covered tree trunks.

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The swift, stiff brushwork in Manet's "The Parisienne" (1875) makes one think of blue-black feathers, the iridescent wings of a grackle.

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If there is a truism we should by now have come to accept, it is to avoid single point extrapolations, look skeptically at the accepted wisdom of the day, and listen for the whistling wings of the Black Swan.

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