一只名叫贝蒂的新喀里多尼亚乌鸦把一根笔直的铁丝咬成一个弯钩，用它把一小桶她最喜欢吃的食物从一根垂直的管子里吊了出来。

One New Caledonian crow, called Betty, bent some straight wire into a hook and used it to lift a small bucket of her favourite food from a vertical pipe.

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她又试图优雅地把脖子弯一下，美丽的天鹅正是因此而被称为太阳神之鸟的。

Now she tried to give it the graceful bend, which designates the beautiful Swan the bird of Apollo.

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这意味着电信公司终于可以把光纤铺进千家万户了——在市内电缆经常要沿着墙角拐许多弯并被紧订在墙上。

That means telecoms can finally put fiber-optic lines into people’s homes, where cables often run up against right angles and tight squeezes from the sidewalk to the house.

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When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

当我看到白桦树弯下身子，向左，也向右,穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树，我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了。

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And, yet, think about the qualities of sound that are so different between "across the lines of straighter darker trees" and "I like to think some boy's been swinging them."

想想这音律的特别之处,这两句有很大的区别,“穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树“,我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了“

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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