The anise swallowtail, have it with butter, believe me.

茴香凤，配上黄油，相信我。

Water gurgled over rocks, and butterflies of every variety— giant swallowtails, short-tailed skippers, pygmy blues, and best of all, monarchs— flew up to forever.

水流在岩石上潺潺流过，各种各样的蝴——巨大的燕、船长、侏儒蓝，还有最重要的是帝王——永远飞翔。

In kindergarten, he'd investigated how long a swallowtail butterfly could stay alive if it got stuck in the chrysalis.

在幼儿园时，他就探究过如一只凤被困在蛹中，它能存活多久。

If they could do it, he thought, why not swallowtails?

如它能做到，他想，凤为什么不行？

We found an exhibit about swallowtails, and my mom texted Sari, Joe's mom, a picture.

我了一个关于凤的展览，我妈妈给乔的妈妈萨里了一张照片。

I could help you test this with your swallowtails, which might be a great research project for third grade.

我可以帮你用凤测试这个，这可能是个很棒的三年级研究项目。

I want to try to find if a swallowtail butterfly could remember what it learned as a caterpillar.

我想尝试找出燕是否能记住它在毛虫阶段学到的东西。

Have you ever experimented in swallowtail butterflies?

你有过在凤身上做实验吗？

I've studied swallowtail butterflies for three years.

我研究凤已有三年时间。

And then I included some pictures, a zebra swallowtail butterfly and an Eastern tiger swallowtail, just to show that we both are swallowtail aficionados.

然后我附上了一些图片， 一只斑马凤和一只东部虎凤，只是为了展示我俩都是凤爱好者。