She held the bird gently in cupped hands.

她双手轻轻地捧着那只小鸟。

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One day he caught a tiny bird and held it in his cupped hands.

一天，他抓到了一只小鸟，把它捧在手里。

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She held the girl, her shoulders sparrow-thin, so unlike Norma, the life so close to the surface, like a bird you held in your cupped hands, its little bones, its tremulous life.

她抱住这个女孩，她的肩膀纤细如麻雀，一点都不同于Norman，她的生活如此贴近现实，仿佛一只在你手中颤抖的小鸟，你能感受到它小小的骨骼，它顽强的生命力。

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With that, Marin dropped his head in his cupped hands and appeared to place something in his mouth.

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They raised their cupped hands to ask for the salvation of those who died when the eight-storey Rana Plaza building came crashing down on 24 April.

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The wind picked up a little, I cupped two hands around my steaming mug and laughed: Ethiopian beans from a Los Angeles roaster at the far ends of the planet.

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