| 词汇 | example_english_feather |
| 释义 | Examples of featherThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Different birds, for example, share features such as flying, having feathers, etc., but none with tools, such as hammer and screwdriver. The initiate on the right also wears this ornament, and even the sun deity in the medallion has exchanged his customary diadem for heron feathers. They represent two serpent helmets worn by two human figures (warriors?) and two feathered eye (war?) serpents. In the instance of bird feathers, it has generated design for the function of flight. Once feathers evolved, one needs to know about their development in the individual. The jagged feathers appearing from behind the birds are wings. The technique involves feathering the matchline of an anterior electron beam and shallow tangents 0.5-1 cm each day during treatment. He smelt strongly of perfumed oil and carried with him a number of peacock feathers and a bundle of grubby charms. The black feathers that identified their specialist unit are much in evidence. The birds' feathers appear ruffled, the comb pale; the birds cease to perch, and, as the disease advances, they lie prostrate upon the ground. Other feathers on a bird do not exhibit obvious modification for flight. Bearing two sons, the wife informs her children that they must collect feathers because they are akin to birds. He enthusiastically adopted flowers and feathers - but the particular flowers and feathers he chose were items too big to be female accessories. Evaluation of the parameters needed to describe the overall growth, the chemical growth, and the growth of feathers and breast muscles of broilers. The bird has long wings with pink feathers. Consider a pigeon preening its feathers and emitting a string of key pecks, for example. Flight feathers clearly exhibit at least secondary modification for flight. The classic example of bird feathers provides a nice illustration. When feathers were a primary exaptation, they presumably did not possess such design. We know, from the relative timing of the first appearance of feathers and ability to fly, that feathers were exapted to flight. The fleas, after a few minutes, will be found dead at the bottom of the receptacle or among the hairs and feathers. Although the lord admiral's ruffled feathers were quickly smoothed and amicable relations restored, tensions remained among their subordinates. Mating behaviour often involves displays of cumbersome feathers or antlers, or profligacy with food. Colony 4 had 29 empty nests, all on accessible ledges: a depredated egg, fox scat, and bear scat full of feathers were found nearby. In other societies, the same social function of showing respect on comparable occasions can be practiced by other means, such as painting one's face or wearing feathers, and so on. On the other hand, reviews of such massive works cannot be of equal nature (or length) or the reviewers risk the academic equivalent of tar and feathers. In and of itself the normative critique ruffles relatively few liberal feathers. The samples were identified as being of fox origin by examining their size, shape, smell and the presence of food remnants such as hair, fruit and feathers. To select a large nestling ensures an appropriate habitat for the present and the future (the second, third ... nestlings in the clutch that still have no feathers). On her head a red hat with big ostrich feathers. Edible birds' nests, beeswax, feathers of birds of paradise, and hornbill ivory were also in demand as were products from the mangrove forests such as cutch and nipah. If contour feathers have not been modified by selection specifically for facilitating flight, they may be pure exaptations to flight as well as adaptations for insulation. At the apical side of the comb two simple hairs and one 12-branched feathered tuft between them ; a small 4-branched feathered hair ventrally of the comb. Still further, there is the issue of how feathers work, the level of mechanism, of how they trap heat, dispel water in water fowl, and aid flight. Birds of many feathers: the formation and structure of mixed species flocks of forest birds. In fact, twin heron feathers appear to float just above his head to the right, perhaps in the process of being conveyed by whatever once occupied the upper left corner. The north masonry facade of the causeway, capped by a parapet, was significantly more formal than the southern edge of the causeway, where the ballast feathered out. He was tarred and feathered. A primitive enantiornithine bird and the origin of feathers. Even so, further subdivision may be indicated, between things that might look frightening to a bird (feathers on a string for example), and things whose noise scares the birds away. You still have no feathers! Whatever the hereafter might hold in store, there is nothing like feathering one's nest in the herebefore. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We propose putting the thing in the simplest possible way, to clip their feathers to the extent of one-half. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that the ladies are not being sold old feathers for new ones, because that would be another reason for objecting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One seemed surrounded by feathers, yet nothing happened! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is at present no restriction on the importation of feathers of any kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have already had a reference this afternoon to the cockerel feathering his nest while the hen sits on the eggs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Suddenly, out of the sky slid two, four, 10, 20 teal, the wind whistling through their feathers as they side-slipped into the flash. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The feathers have fallen in the wrong direction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of these birds may be sold to provide feathers for fly tying—in particular the jay and the magpie. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no doubt that this smuggling of feathers is a very remunerative trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that these places that sell feathers have been in a very bad way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of those things is that you must not have imported feathers in your possession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You cannot get women to use only ostrich feathers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has a voice like a circular saw and a brain of feathers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seen the film several times, and one of its essential characteristics was that those feathers were sent by cowards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again it appears that we are not really feathering our nests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the five cases of eggs feathers of the bird of paradise were found to the value of £2,500 concealed amongst the eggs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wings of man today may be supersonic and their feathers may sometimes be radioactive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are a number of notable feathers in our cap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People who will ruffle feathers are never, and will never be, nominated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I intend to maintain the prohibition against the importation of bird of paradise feathers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, it runs the risk of getting its feathers torn out! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The figures given relate to imports of feathers, exclusive of raw ostrich feathers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The figures given relate to the importation of ornamental feathers other than ostrich feathers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No information is available as to the proposed destination of the feathers in question. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Assets should not be sold at the last minute because people are feathering their nests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, local feathers will be ruffled and there will be a great deal of nimbyism, but it is worth pushing on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When they are healthy, there is a big fluff of feathers protruding from under their wings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The feathers under the wings were not ruffled at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He told me that he had been measured for his feathers yesterday. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The waiting lists lengthened because the consultants who are criticising hospital ancillary workers were busy feathering their nests through private practice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know whether ladies wear feathers in their caps nowadays. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One should not pull the feathers from the goose one by one until it loses them altogether and, in an excess of modesty, expires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here we are dealing not only with what could be alive but, far more probably, with skins, feathers or some other material. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now the birds are farmed for their feathers and, for tourist reasons, for their eggs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were places which my noble friend stated were places where these feathers were sold. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My noble friend knows that it is perfectly legal to sell these feathers openly, if they were imported before 1921. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think one was the grebe and the other the case of feathers being brought here in a portmanteau. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were some feathers attached to a particular sceptre which had been kept in perfect condition for about two hundred years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have thought it was perfectly easy to tiring in feathers by smuggling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are you going to catch the wild birds and cut their wing feathers, or what are you going to do? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In each hole a pair of feathers is placed with the thick ends down. One is an oblique specimen with extremely refined, feathered retouch on the dorsal aspect along one lateral edge. The flesh became nourishment for the body, while the skin or feathers nourished the spirit. The feathers are symbolic of his impending death. The headdress consists of a headband with an array of feathers and a broad stripe hanging from behind. The personage wears a broadband headdress with an array of feathers. We may then infer that flight exerted a selective force on the construction of flight feathers. From these it seems that later drawings are incorrect and that the headdress, instead, consists of a crown of tall, upright feathers. The material was sorted, and food item remains such as seeds, arthropod fragments, teeth, hair, nails, feathers, and scales, among others, were selected for analysis. Scavengers usually found the carcasses within a day, and 20 (91%) were dismembered leaving scattered feathers and bones. Goggles were affixed to the feathers surrounding the eyes with contact cement. The most commonly used modern form of a wedge is the plug and feathers. The feathers on the heads of the little boys in the second battle might have represented the same thing. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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