They also sometimes pick up weeds or a piece of wood with their beaks, twirl in a circle, and smash the object on the water.

他们有时会用长喙衔些野草或者一块木头，转着圆圈，击打水面。

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It has no any logical meaning or practical purpose, just stands in one of numerous Russian villages as an art object, made of wood as everything other around it.

它就像一座木桥从山坡上探向另一端，却突然半途断了。它没有任何逻辑意义或实际意义，只是作为一种艺术品矗立在众多俄罗斯村庄中的一个村庄里，全部用木头做成。

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Is different from last time, there is no voice that object bumps a shot wood ship this time, seem to be particularly on the sea surface of calmness.

与上次不同，这次没有任何物体撞击木船的声音，海面上显得格外的安静。

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She insisted on this part, and my father later backed her up: the magic was not just that the drum of a solid wood object without batteries rotated but that it did so only when unobserved, stopping whenever observed.

NEWYORKER: All That

That means that an object under the stack - in the team's experiments, a block of wood about 10cm long - would not "hear" the sound, and any attempts to locate the object using sound waves would not find it.

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Made from an offshoot of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden, the wood takes various forms across the millennia, becoming an object of reverence, desire and fear for various crowned heads until the early seventh century, when a Christian emperor humbly carries it to its sanctuary in Jerusalem.

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