The model hypothesizes, for example, that a simple tubular feather preceded the evolution of barbs because barbs are created by the differentiation of the tube into barb ridges.

比如，我们的模型假设，简单的管状羽毛先于羽枝的演化，因为羽枝是由管子分化出羽枝脊才产生的。

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When he goes to the UN General Assembly in September to present his case for the recognition of a Palestinian state, he can now fend off barbs that he speaks for only half of Palestine.

在他九月去联合国大会提交重新认可巴勒斯坦的提案时，他可以不再受到那些话语的攻击，说他仅能代表半个巴勒斯坦。

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American Banks throw barbs at the way that Europeans calculate the riskiness of their assets, which affects the amount of capital they have to hold.

美国的银行则对欧洲计算资产风险性的方法有诸多非议，因为这会影响到它们需要持有的资本额。

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The sharp metal barbs tore the skin of the men who stretched it along fence tops.

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Mamet never seems short of barbs and pique.

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But over the weekend, BP and Anadarko, a Texas-based oil company, kind of traded barbs over whether Anadarko should be partly responsible because they own 25 percent of the well that is currently gushing.

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Thierry Junod, general manager of Montblanc Watch Production, had to deal with all of the barbs from his established competitors.

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