Harder still, how do you preen your body feathers?

更麻烦的是要如何羽毛呢？

" Strong, " his own bird said, preening. " Strong, strong" .

" 强壮！" 他的乌鸦边羽毛，边叫，" 强壮！强壮！"

It might, though, be that Dr Deecke's preening animal is unique.

不过，也有可能只是Deecke博士看的那只梳毛发的熊比较特别罢了。

There he stepped ashore, straightened his things, preened his feathers, and rested.

他跨小岛，好他的东西，又梳了他的羽毛，然后才休息下来。

I am laughing because, in preening my feathers, I tickled myself under the wings.

“我笑是因为我羽毛的时候，把翅膀下的胳肢窝弄痒了。”

The tiny bird coats its feather with water-proofing oil from a specially adapted preening gland.

这种小鸟用尾脂腺分泌的油脂涂在羽毛防水。

Then she waddled out onto a grassy bank and stood there, preening her feathers.

最后，她摇摇摆摆地处长满青草的边，站在那里，用嘴梳自己的羽毛。

It perched, played, preened and posed at least until another cockatoo came and stopped the show.

还在那儿歇脚、玩耍、用嘴梳羽毛，偶尔还摆个姿势，直只鹦鹉过来才停止了它的表演。

They need to preen their flight feathers, clean off the city dust and cool themselves down.

它们需要清用于飞行的羽毛，除去沾染的城市灰尘，让自己清凉下。

When he was finished, he stood for a while, admiring the bath mat and preening his feathers.

洗完澡后，他站了会儿，欣赏着浴室地面的垫子，然后又用嘴梳了自己的羽毛。

Sweaters are placed on the penguins to keep them warm and prevent them from preening and swallowing oil.

穿毛衣的企鹅能够防寒，并防止它们羽毛或是吸油。

Fuhao, it seems, was very much a lady as proud and keen as preening herself as any Phoenix.

妇好似乎是个非常骄傲和敏锐的女人，就像凤凰样。

But when their parents are away, the nestlings take turns napping, preening each other and talking to themselves.

但当鹦鹉父母离开时，鹦鹉幼崽会依次打盹，互相梳毛发，自言自语。

She was a preening interloper who made a spectacle of herself.

个靠打扮勾人眼球的不速之客罢了。

" Let the Romneyite right-winger parade his indifference and the left-winger preen in his hatreds, " he writes.

“让罗姆尼派右翼分子炫耀他的冷漠，让左翼分子炫耀他的仇恨，”他写道。

Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

让别人像蝴蝶样，振翅飞翔，终生依靠花朵的施舍。

He turned sharply, and there, just above him on the branch of a tree, sat a large Parrot, busily preening his feathers.

他抬头看，只见方的根树枝坐着只大鹦鹉，正在忙着它身的羽毛。

In the bedroom where the wraps were laid, she found Cathleen Calvert preening before the mirror and biting her lips to make them look redder.

在放包裹的那间卧室里，她发现凯瑟琳·卡尔弗特正站在镜前打扮，拼命咬着嘴唇，想叫它们显得更红些。

He shook the wet from his wings, preened his feathers for a moment, and then swelling out his breast uttered his sweet call note.

他抖抖湿漉漉的翅膀，下羽毛，之后挺起胸膛响起叫声。

Right, he says the hearings were never really about getting information, they were a chance to, you know, preen for cable television.

是的，他说听证会从来都不是为了获取信息，而是个为有线电视做准备的机会。