"Your eyes are two pools that twinkle like stars in the sky." These sweet nothings are traditionally best sent in feather-inked script1 on fine, perfumed parchment2.

“你的双眼是两汪清泉，像星星一样在天空闪烁。”这些甜美的空话在过去是最美好的情话，经常会被用鹅毛笔写在精美的、芳香的羊皮纸上。

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Food sellers deciding how to inform consumers about nutritional quality is a classic case of the fox guarding the hen house, and results in feather-flying fiascos like Smart Choices.

由卖食品的来决定如何将食品中的营养成份告知消费者，就好像让狐狸来看鸡窝一样，结果肯定是类似“聪明的选择”那样鸡毛满天飞的闹剧。

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The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together.

早晨，金羽毛被送到了国王那里，所有的大臣都被召集到一起。

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I love all kinds of animals. This is a real feather in my cap.

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The 24-paged editorial, shot by photographer Steven Meisel, captures model Kristen McMenamy, covered in black grease, writhing about in feather dresses on a rocky, post-apocalyptic-looking beach, evoking the real-life images of oil-coated birds gasping for breath that dominated coverage of the spill.

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She's a botanist, and she was wearing a feather in her hair, a cerulean blue feather, in honor of the occasion.

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Sound is recorded in stereo, another feather in the Sensation's multimedia hat, though we found the phone unusually prone to picking up wind noise.

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