The villages are no more than a mile apart as the crow flies.

这些村庄直线距离相隔不超过一英里。

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The crow, pleased with the flattery, and chuckling to think how she would surprise the fox with her caw, opened her mouth.

乌鸦听了甜言蜜语很高兴，一想到自己的叫声会使狐狸大吃一惊，就咯咯地笑起来，张开了嘴。

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We heard the crow of a rooster.

我们听到了公鸡的啼叫声。

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I go the most direct way. Anyone who eats crow has to admit a mistake or defeat.

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So he begins here: Rookslive in a crowd and are mainly vegetarian; Crow may be either another name for rook, especially when seen alone, or it may mean the solitary Carrion crow.

所以他开头这样写道：,白嘴鸦过着群居的生活，它们大部分是素食者;,单独看的时候，乌鸦也能做白嘴鸦的别名，或者乌鸦就是指独居的吃腐肉的乌鸦。

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It may not be as the crow flies and may be long way around,

它可能不是直线最短距离，可能绕得很远，

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Only the call of a crow disturbs the silence around a gleaming, empty terminal that should be humming with the din of thousands of passengers.

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Only 40 miles east of the Greenbrier as the crow flies, the Homestead, in Hot Springs, Virginia, is no less steeped in tradition--one of those traditions being the cross-mountain rivalry between the resorts.

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The RMT's general secretary Bob Crow said the cleaners were doing "some of the dirtiest jobs" on minimum pay.

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