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.

如果它是样旋转，是我所说削边，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毛。

Mick Ellison reconstructs the feathering of the wings and tail.

克·埃里森重建了翅膀和尾巴毛。

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

Tarring and Feathering 现在又回到了痛苦中， 但又增加了一些屈辱。

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

种边缘果更赏心悦目。

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，像样向内一点，把它放在那儿，然后把它塑造成毛状。

The day Ellerin was killed, she took her father, Michael, to the airport after he'd spent a week helping her paint and fix up her place. We were feathering her nest, he said.

埃勒林被杀那天，她送父亲迈克尔(Michael)去了机场，此前他花了一周时间帮她油漆和装修房子。“我们在给她巢插上毛，”他说。