Several fat brown chickens were pecking their way around the yard.

几只褐色的肥鸡在院子里啄食。

PROMETHEUS, a Titan bound to a rock by Zeus, endured the daily torture of an eagle feasting on his liver, only to have the organ regrow each night.

在希腊神话中，提坦（Titan）普罗米修斯（Prometheus）被宙斯（Zeus）束缚在一块巨石上，白天忍受着老鹰啄食他的肝脏，夜晚他的肝脏却又总会再次生长。

Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.

如今，从瑞德留下的那一堆混着狂喜、、心和屈辱的紊乱情绪中，愁苦已渐渐冒出头来，最后像啄食腐尸的乌鸦蹲在她肩上。

So, there is a definite pecking order in chickens.

所以鸡群中绝对存在啄食顺序。

No pecking order exists among the cubs at the carcass.

啃食尸体的幼崽间不存在啄食顺序。

Previous work suggests the caterpillars whistle when pecked at by birds.

此前的研究发现，毛虫在被鸟儿啄食时会发出口哨声。

It's like a hunt and peck kind of a thing, and it's not cost effective.

就像猎食和啄食类的事情，很不划算。

The birds also get nutrients by picking at sores on the rhinos' bodies.

这些鸟还通过啄食黑犀牛身上的溃疡来获取营养。

The mother bird will dart at you and try to peck your eyes.

鸟妈妈会向你扑来，试图啄食你的眼睛。

And then, of course, reporters asked him about Elon, and Trump started pecking away cautiously.

当记者问到埃隆，特朗普开始小心翼翼地 “啄食”（暗指措辞谨慎）。

With its bill the pigeon picks up the seeds on which it lives.

鸽子以种子为食, 它就是用喙来啄食种子的。

That's right. You are nothing more than carrion...

正是了 你不过是个贪婪啄食。

When the pigeons pecked at the button, the machine would give them food.

当鸽子啄食按钮时，机器就会给它们食物。

She knew my voice as well as any dog, and used to run cackling and bustling to my hand to receive the fragments, that I never failed to collect from the breakfast table for Yarico, as she was called.

她的听觉像狗一样灵敏，能听出我的声音，常常咯咯叫着，跑着到我的手上啄食，我从不忘记拾起桌上的剩饭给雅丽克，雅丽克是她的名字。

Everyone in my office works hard, but some people have had their wings clipped. Their jobs have been limited. This is because the office is organized by pecking order.

办公室里的人都很卖力地工作，不过有的人却扼杀了他们的雄心。他们做的事情很有限。这是因为办公室是以啄食规则组织的。

The hens had no fear. They came close up to her, and picked up the crumbs as fast as she let them fall on the ground.

母鸡不怕人。它们来到她身旁，很快地啄食从她手中散落在地上的面包渣。

Pigeons are a common sight in many cities. They might start their day strolling through a park. They peck birdseed that people feed them.

鸽子是许多城市里常见的景象。它们的一天可能从在公园里漫步开始。鸽子会啄食人们喂给它们的鸟食。

Why should they eat their 60 acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt?

他们为什么能够享受60英亩田地的供养，而更多人却命定了，只能啄食尘土呢？

So " peckish" means that you're a little bit hungry, a little bit like bird's peck at food.

peckish 的意思是你有点饿，有点像鸟儿啄食食物。

You're definitely top of the pecking order, aren't you?

你绝对在啄食顺序的顶端，不是吗？