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

" 强壮！" 他乌鸦一边整理，一边叫，" 强壮！强壮！"

Harder still, how do you preen your body feathers?

更麻烦是要如何整理呢？

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

不过，也有可能只是Deecke博士看到那只梳理发较特别罢了。

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

“我笑是因为我理时候，把翅膀下胳肢窝弄痒了。”

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油脂涂在上防水。

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

最后，她摇摇摆摆地上到一处长满青岸边，站在那里，用嘴梳理自己。

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

洗完澡后，他站了一会儿，欣赏着浴室地面垫子，然后又用嘴梳理了自己。

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

穿上衣企鹅能够防寒，并防止它们整理是吸油。

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

妇好似乎是一个非常骄傲和敏锐女人，就像凤凰一样。

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，互相梳理发，自言自语。

Oh, look at him fixing the tie, there're some preening.

看他在整理领带，还刻意打扮了一番。

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

他跨上小岛岸，整理好他东西，又梳理了他，然后才休息下来。

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

还在那儿歇脚、玩耍、用嘴梳理，偶尔还摆个姿势，直到另一只鹦鹉过来才停止了它表演。

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

它们需要清理用于飞行，除去沾染城市灰尘，让自己清凉一下。

And then there's sculpting and painting and, grooming and preening which can be more on the artistic side.

还有雕塑、绘画、还有梳妆打扮，这些都是艺术方面。

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

他抬头一看，只见上方一根树枝上坐着只大鹦鹉，正在忙着理它身上。

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

一个靠打扮勾人眼球不速之客罢了。

And then there's sculpting and painting and, you know, grooming and preening which can be more on the artistic side.

还有雕塑，绘画，还有梳妆打扮，这些都是艺术方面。

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，想叫它们显得更红一些。

" 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冷漠，让左翼分子炫耀他仇恨，”他写道。