The day before his mother's birthday, a man came, carrying a cage with a big bird in it.

就在他妈妈生日的前一天，一个男人来了，提着一个里面装有一只很大的鸟的笼子。

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"The idea of a man-made machine chopping a bird in half creates a visceral reaction," he said, "while the idea of a predator with its prey in its mouth - well we've seen that on the Nature Channel."

人造机器把鸟锯成两半，这种观点激发了人类的本能反应；而捕食者口中含着的猎物这一观点，我们会视之为自然的本性。

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“The idea of a man-made machine chopping a bird in half creates a visceral reaction, ” he said, “while the idea of a predator with its prey in its mouth — well we’ve seen that on the Nature Channel.

人造机器把鸟锯成两半，这种观点激发了人类的本能反应；而捕食者口中含着的猎物这一观点，我们会视之为自然的本性。

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Haze drove on, leaving the man who has helped him: "The blinding white cloud had turned into a bird with long, thin wings and was disappearing in the opposite direction."

海斯继续开车，离开了那位帮助他的男人：,那朵亮白的云转变成了一只有这长而瘦的羽翼的小鸟的形状,消失在另一个方向“

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He would tread, a little bird-like man with hands folded and head bowed, along narrow paths that threaded through the jungle-forests of central Cambodia.

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The asides are intended to be humorous but are typically delivered with the lightness of touch of a man dumping a fridge at a wild bird sanctuary.

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