For millennia, Buddhists in these mountains have relied on the griffon vulture and the lammergeier to help them dispose of their dead.

数千年来，这里的就是依靠山里的秃鹫和髭兀鹰来帮助他处理尸体的。

As she lay prostrate, too weak to fight off memories and worries, they rushed at her like buzzards waiting for death.

太虚了，她直挺挺地躺在那里，无法击退那些记忆和烦恼，只好凭它纷纷袭来，包围着她，像兀鹰等待着一个人咽气似的。

Recruiters circle elite universities like vultures.

招聘者像兀鹰一样在精英大学盘旋。

The animals had been frightened, cold, ravenous, wild as forest creatures, the strong attacking the weak, the weak waiting for the weaker to die so they could eat them.

它强食，彼此等待着对方成为牺牲品供自己饱餐一顿。同时那片废墟上头的凛冽天空中，有不少兀鹰嘴里叼着动物的腐尸残骸在盘旋飞舞。