The logic was that the eagle thought his head was a stone, wanting to kill the live tortoise by dropping it.

人们的推理是老鹰以为他的头是块石头，想把活乌龟空投到上面摔死。

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This stone like eagle, straight fall, panic in the wings, it is hard to swat so, it finally flew up!

这只鹰像块石头似的，直掉下去，慌乱之中它拼命地扑打翅膀，就这样，它终于飞了起来！

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The eagle, like a stone dropped straight, flustered tried to beat its wings, just like that, it finally flew!

这只鹰像块石头似的，直掉下去，慌乱之中它拼命地扑打翅膀，就这样，它终于飞了起来！

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Mr Duncan starts with a Stone Age astronomer who observed the phases of the moon, and marked them by carving notches on an eagle's bone.

ECONOMIST: Late for the date