A feathered dinosaur can earn several thousand dollars, a year's income or more.

而一块羽毛恐龙的化石则价值数千美元，相当于当地农民们一整年的收入。

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The abundance of feathered fossils has allowed paleontologists to examine a fundamental question: Why did feathers evolve?

丰沛的羽毛化石使得古生物学家有条件来验证一个最基本的问题：为什么羽毛会进化？

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The Yixian Formation also yielded Sinosauropteryx, the first physical evidence of a feathered dinosaur.

古生物学家在义县组发掘出了中华龙鸟，它是羽毛恐龙的首个直接物证

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Many feathered dinosaurs did not have wings or were too heavy, relative to the length of their feathered limbs, to fly.

很多长有羽毛的恐龙因为没有翅膀，或相对于长毛的前肢来说身体过于沉重，因此也无法飞行。

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Sheltered, plain, shy, she preferred feathered creatures to people and identified with them; underneath she was all beak and claws.

她更喜欢羽类动物而非人类，并定义它们是“受保护的，简单的，害羞的”；私底下的她是个谜团。

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Scientists also hypothesized that feathered dinosaurs had lice and determined that yawns are contagious among chimpanzees.

科学家还猜测有羽毛的恐龙会生虱子，还认定呵欠在黑猩猩中也是会传染的。

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Two museums of treasures from the Pre-Inca Paracas culture, including mummies and feathered garments, lost their outer walls.

两座存有前印加帕拉卡斯文明珍宝——包括木乃伊和羽毛外衣——的博物馆的外墙倒塌了。

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One of the most unexpected Chinese fossils in Microraptor. It had four feathered limbs and almost certainly could fly.

令人意想不到的中国小盗龙化石，它的四肢长有羽毛，古生物学家断定它肯定可以飞行。

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The other was a feathered skull from the Eocene (55m years ago) that had been unearthed in Denmark.

另一个是在丹麦发掘到的始新世（5500万年前）的一根羽骨。

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Prof Roger Wotton, from University College London, found that flight would be impossible for angels portrayed with arms and feathered wings.

伦敦大学学院教授罗格·沃顿认为，艺术作品中所描绘的那些长有胳膊和羽翼的天使，根本就不可能飞得起来。

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Ted Chaney, a horse-dealer, says buyers are looking for a glossy mane, a nice size and (the main attraction) finely feathered feet.

马商TedChanky告诉记者，购买者会关注（马匹身上的）光泽的鬃毛和漂亮的腿形，以及（最主要吸引之处）亮丽的腿毛。

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Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk tail in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes.

嗯，至少有一只恐龙的摩霍克尾巴覆盖了浅栗色的羽毛，上面有白色条纹。

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You are my first thought of each new day, and the last image I glimpse, as my eyes are closed upon a feathered pillow.

你是我每一天第一个想到的，也是我最后瞥见的，当我的双眼上羽毛枕上闭上的时。

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You now should have your teeth nicely selected and feathered and the fun can start.

你现在已经恰好地选择并羽化了牙齿，有趣的即将开始了。

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The clearest and most striking of the specimens can be seen to have four wings, extensive plumage and profusely feathered feet.

其中最清晰、最引人注目的化石标本上，可依稀看出它有四个翅膀、全身羽毛分布广泛、连脚上都被有羽毛。

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Theropods were early winged and feathered dinosaurs that walked mainly on their hind legs and were incapable of flight.

兽脚亚目食肉恐龙是早期的有翼和羽的恐龙，其主要靠后足行走且不会飞行。

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They all kind of looked like feathered dino-birds.

他们都看起来有些像长了羽毛的恐龙与鸟的复合体。

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On a cautionary note, he adds that the next feathered fossil unearthed in China could easily restore the premier status of Archaeopteryx.

他在提醒注意的评注里补充，下一个在中国发掘出的长有羽毛的化石能简易地把最高的地位归还给“始祖鸟”。

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What evidence there is tends to indicate that human lovebirds are little better than their feathered counterparts.

现有的证据表明人类情侣稍微比那些带羽毛的强点。

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Some scientists argue that feathered dinosaurs evolved flight from the ground up, flapping their feathered arms as they ran.

一些研究者认为羽毛恐龙是从零开始进化出飞行能力的，它们在奔跑中会拍动自己带羽毛的前肢。

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The feathered and blanketed figure of the American Indian has come to symbolize the American continent.

羽毛和毯子装扮的印第安美国人形象已经成为美洲大陆的标志。

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The crew feathered ( their oars ) for the last few yards of the race.

在划船比赛到最后几码时，全体队员回桨时把桨叶持平。

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Pigeons aren't considered the smartest of our feathered friends, but the incessantly cooing, bread-crumb-eating birds have their uses.

在我们长着羽毛的朋友中，鸽子不被认为是最聪明的，但是这些不断咕咕叫的、吃面包屑的鸟有它们的用处。

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This could also explain why there are higher populations of dark feathered birds in urban areas, where parasite prevalence is higher.

这就解释了为何城市中深色羽毛的鸟类较多，因为这些地区寄生虫患病率较高。

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The sun is blazing from a blue sky feathered lightly with cirrus cloud.

这一天阳光明媚，蔚蓝天空中飘着些许云彩。

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The famous fashion show, with legendary supermodels strutting in lavishly jeweled bras and feathered wings, became a cultural moment.

著名的维秘时装展，经典的维密超模晃着镶满珠宝的文胸和羽毛翅膀妖娆地走T台，都已成为一种文化符号。

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