However, feathering your nest is quite a different thing.

然而，feathering your nest（谋取私利）完全是另一回事。

If it were spinning this way, it's what I would call feathering, the tip follows the rotation.

如果它是这样旋转的，这就是我所说的削边，尖端跟随旋转。

It was at work upon the feathering of his shafts that the first of the reporters found him.

第一个记者找到他时他正在往箭杆上安装羽毛。

This feathering of the edges is much more pleasant to the eyes.

这种边缘的羽化效果看起来更舒服。

Tarring and Feathering Now back to pain, but with some added humiliation.

Tarring and Feathering 现在又回到痛苦中， 但又增加一些屈辱。

Another is feathering, or smudging them together and hoping for the best.

另一种是渐变，或将它们混合在一起，然后抱最好的希望。

Mick Ellison reconstructs the feathering of the wings and tail.

克·埃里森翅膀和尾巴的羽毛。

So if you think you might have a child in the near future, start feathering your nest with cash now.

所以，如果你认为将来可能会有孩子，现在就开始攒钱吧。

And innately, why this is so important to us as humans is it's basically like feathering your nest in action, right?

而其对我们人类为何如此要， 本质上是因为这实际上就像是行动中的筑巢行为，对吧？

Let's just move on and talk about tarring and feathering.

我们继续前进，来谈谈涂沥青和插羽毛的刑罚吧。

Tarring and Feathering really stepped up around that.

涂柏油拔鸡毛的惩罚在那段时期确实变得更加普遍。

And because that tarring and feathering caused such burns and blisters, quote, they say his flesh comes off his back in steaks.

因为涂沥青和羽毛的酷刑造成严的烧伤和水泡，据说他的肉像牛排一样从背上脱落下来。

When you put it on, go kind of inward like this, to get it on there and then shape it feathering out a bit.

当你穿上它时，像这样向内一点，把它放在那儿，然后把它塑造成羽毛状。

And as far as we know, no one died from tarring and feathering.

据我们所知，没有人因涂沥青、粘羽毛而丧命。

And I say we take a break and we'll come back and tell the sorry story of the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm.

我说我们休息一下，回来再讲述约翰·马尔科姆被涂焦油粘羽毛的悲惨故事。

I know they covered it on Ridiculous History, our colleagues Ben and Noel, but I know we talked about the stocks and tarring and feathering.

我知道他们在我们的同事本和诺埃尔主持的《荒诞历史》节目中讨论过，但我也知道我们曾聊到过枷锁、涂沥青和插羽毛的惩罚方式。

Yes, and one of the most famous episodes of tarring and feathering in colonial America took place on top of John Malcolm, a customs official.

是的，殖民地时期美国最著名的涂沥青、粘羽毛事件之一，就发在海关官员约翰·马尔科姆身上。

So, Chuck, there was one last instance of tarring and feathering that took place in the 1980s in Alabama in 1981.

所以，查克，在1981年的阿拉巴马州，也就是上世纪80年代，还发过一起涂沥青粘羽毛的事件。

The person that he struck in the street that led to his tarring and feathering interceded when John Malcolm was threatening a boy, right?

他当初在街上殴打的那个人， 正是导致他被涂沥青、插羽毛羞辱的导火索， 而当约翰·马尔科姆威胁一个男孩时， 那人却出面调解，对吧？

But there was like a, even among those people, there was still just a certain subset that were true targets of tarring and feathering.

但在这些人中，仍有一小部分人成为真正的涂沥青、羽毛羞辱的对象。