The girl looked up and saw that the voice came from a bird hanging in a cage on the wall.

女孩抬头一看，声音是从挂在墙上笼子里的一只鸟发出来的。

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She held the girl, her shoulders sparrow-thin, so unlike Norma, the life so close to the surface, like a bird you held in your cupped hands, its little bones, its tremulous life.

她抱住这个女孩，她的肩膀纤细如麻雀，一点都不同于Norman，她的生活如此贴近现实，仿佛一只在你手中颤抖的小鸟，你能感受到它小小的骨骼，它顽强的生命力。

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Charles saw them both at the same time: a small white bird and the girl wheeling down the walk.

查尔斯是在同一时刻看到他们俩的：一只白色的小鸟和坐着轮椅沿着小径悠然而来的女孩。

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Tom Kline, a lawyer for the alleged victim's mother, said the girl's report of a talking bird in the house where she was held became a focal point of the investigation.

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In addition, the World Health Organization said a two-year-old girl in northern China had tested positive for bird flu.

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