This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen from staying in the nest.

这可以使这一对正常交配同时也阻止雌禽待在窝里。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

On the 10th, if you're single, you could lock eyes with your soul mate in line at the vegetable market, and if you're in a pair, you could rediscover why you fell in love.

十号，如果是你自己，你会在超市里排队的时候用眼锁定你的志趣相投的人；

youdao

There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he's not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

ECONOMIST: Recent American fiction: Where the wild things are | The