She scraped together the dead leaves till she had formed them into a large heap, making a sort of nest in the middle.

她把一些枯叶扫到一起，堆成一大堆，在中间扒出一个窝来。

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"Starved and frozen," he wrote, "I huddled on the stone floor, making a sort of tent of my verminous coat, breathing into a sleeve to warm my body and made poems all day long."

在满是寄生虫的单衣‘帐篷’内，我靠呼吸取暖，灵感如潮水般涌来、写诗成为我的一切。

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It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though making a sort of obeisance to the sun, and then began to pour forth a torrent of song.

它展开翅膀，再小心翼翼收拢来，低头耽了一会儿，一如向着太阳敬个礼。而后，它突然高声唱起来。

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Okay? So when you say that what you're doing is scientific in a context of this sort, you are making yourself vulnerable.

对吧？，所以在这种情况下你说自己所做的是科学的时,你就使自己站不住脚了。

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