It matters nothing if one is born in a duck-yard, if one has only lain in a swan's egg.

出生在鸭窝里有什么关系，只要是从天鹅蛋里孵化出来的就行了。

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Happiest of all was the day he returned to the "duck-yard," nearly 50 years after he had left it.

回到他阔别近50年的“鸭圈”的那天是他一生中最幸福的时候。

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Among the, he at last learned happily that "it doesn't matter if you are born in a duck-yard, as long as you come from a swan's egg."

从他们中他愉快地学到了“只要你是天鹅下的蛋，无论你是否在鸭圈中出生都没有关系。”

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Employee got a late start because she was putting a rain coat on her cement duck in her front yard (because rain was expected later that day).

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