They have tested the idea that cuckoos mimic hawks—or, at least, that warblers think cuckoos look hawklike.

它们已经证实了会模仿鹰——或者说，至少在莺看来，非常像鹰。

I just wanted to thank you for your advice on my azaleas. They're just thriving.

我来谢谢你给我花提建议。它们长得好极了。

Probably, Dr Davies and Dr Welbergen have caught cuckoo and warbler in the middle of an evolutionary arms race.

也许戴维斯博士和韦伯尔根博士已经注意到了和莺正处于一个进化军备竞赛中。

Hawk-like stripes do, then, provoke what is, from a cuckoo's point of view, the desired reaction: less of the sort of behaviour that is likely to interfere with her egg-laying mission.

从角度来看，鹰状条纹所起主要作用就是它所希望看到：如果缺乏这种行为会则会影响到产卵任务。

Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy, furzy, briary wilderness—" Bruaria."

根据那部历史文献，这是一片长、荆棘与石楠野地，地名叫“布鲁阿里亚”。

Paths climb through jungles of rhododendron and magnolias.

小径穿过花和玉花丛。

But alas! We do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes.

可是，唉！我们不喜欢燕八哥和，它们跑到别个鸟禽所巢中去下蛋，那叽叽喳喳不协和乐音并不能使行路经过人听了快乐。

The leaves rustled overhead; the cuckoo sang from the unseen dark, and perfume of babla flowers came from the bend of the road.

树叶在头上萧萧地响着，在幽暗处歌唱，曲径传来胶树花香。

Such leeway would make it easier for a female cuckoo to lay where she chose.

这样空当就给了雌自由选择巢穴产卵机会。

Quick anecdote about that is that cuckoos know that the host birds can count.

还有一个小故事，知道寄主鸟在下蛋时会数数。

And so many look nothing like the bees we picture like orchid bees with their super long tongues in iridescent colors, or this parasitic cuckoo bee with bluish markings from Africa.

而且很多蜂类看起来一点也不像我们想象中蜜蜂，比如有着彩虹色超长舌头花蜂，或者这种来自非洲带蓝色斑纹寄生蜂。

The cuckoo lays its egg in the strange bird's nest, and when the young one is hatched it shoulders its foster-brothers out and breaks at last the nest that has sheltered it.

把蛋下到别鸟巢里，当雏鸟孵出以后，就把它异母兄弟们挤出巢外，最后还要把庇护它巢窝毁掉。

The changing seasons bring their own charm: cherry blossoms and azaleas in spring, sparkling waters in summer, splendid maple leaves in autumn, and a fairy-tale appearance in winter.

四季变换，春有樱花，夏有波光粼粼，秋有绚丽枫叶，冬则化为童话仙境。

Named “Cuckoo's Egg”, it was caught only because a sharp-eyed official noted a tiny 75-cent billing error, revealing unauthorised use of a computer network.

行动代号为“蛋”，它败露仅仅是由于一名眼尖官员，发现了一个区区75美分帐目错误，因为恰恰是这个错误，暴露了曾有人未经授权使用了电脑网络。

Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.

苍鹭在岸边缓缓地迈着步子，翠鸟和欢叫着从阳光里飞入树荫，火鸡模样大鸟在枯枝间忙碌，鹰在头上盘旋。

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

玫瑰开得正艳，两只夜莺各自在密林里呢喃，一只在菩提树梢开始唱得走了调。

And they blundered through great masses of stuff like rhododendrons and tore their clothes and got their feet wet in the stream.

他们跌跌撞撞地穿过大片大片之类灌木丛，衣服扯破了，脚也在小溪里弄湿了。

At the time, the only plants growing in the garden were a rhododendron bush, a few daffodil flowers, and some ferns.

当时，花园里唯一种植物是花、几朵水仙花和一些蕨类植物。

Elevation and latitude crosscut to form mazes of high-altitude grasslands, chilly black-green conifer forests, temperate rhododendron thickets, and subtropical lowland savannas.

海拔和纬度横切，形成迷宫般高海拔草原，寒冷黑绿色针叶林，温带花灌丛和亚热带低地稀树草原。

In 1952, all the rhododendrons in Parliament Square were pulled up and women were barred from the roof of Admiralty Arch.

1952 年，议会广场上花被全部拔掉，妇女被禁止进入海军部拱门屋顶。