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。

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.

埃勒林被杀的那天，她送父亲迈克尔(Michael)去了机场，此前花了一周的间帮她油漆和装修房子。“们在给她的巢插上羽毛，”。

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

第一个记者找正在往箭杆上安装羽毛。

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，这就是所的削边，尖端跟随旋转。

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 现在又回了痛苦中， 但又加了一些屈辱。

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。

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，像这样向内一点，把它放在那儿，然后把它塑造成羽毛状。

So we're talking late 1760s, early 1770s is when it was, I guess, the golden age of Tarring and Feathering in the American colonies.

所， 们谈论的是18世纪60年代末70年代初，那大概是美洲殖民地“涂焦油粘羽毛” 的黄金期。

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

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

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

所，如果你认为将来可能会有孩子，现在就开始攒钱吧。

Mick Ellison reconstructs the feathering of the wings and tail.

米克·埃里森重建了翅膀和尾巴的羽毛。

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了严重的烧伤和水泡，据的肉像牛排一样从背上脱落下来。

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.

知道们在们的同事本和诺埃尔主持的《荒诞历史》节目中讨论过，但也知道们曾聊过枷锁、涂沥青和插羽毛的惩罚方式。

And because it worked so well, the Sons of Liberty and just Bostonians in general started adopting tarring and feathering three years after William Smith's T and F episode.

由于这种方法效果显著，自由之子及波士顿的普通民众普遍在威廉·史密斯遭受涂沥青粘羽毛事件的三年后，开始采用这种涂沥青粘羽毛的惩罚方式。

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

据们所知，没有人因涂沥青、粘羽毛而丧命。

Tarring and Feathering really stepped up around that.

涂柏油拔鸡毛的惩罚在那段期确实变得更加普遍。

And if that doesn't really kind of tell you what kind of person John Malcolm was, that tarring and feathering was his second in two years.

如果这还不足让你了解约翰·马尔科姆是怎样的人， 那告诉你，这种涂沥青、粘羽毛的羞辱， 在两年内就经历了两次。

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

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

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

们继续前进，来谈谈涂沥青和插羽毛的刑罚吧。