Once she finds the perfect spot, she breaks off her wings — creating the stubs that establish her royal status.

旦找到理想位置后，她就折断翅膀——生出作为她皇位标志的残根。

Wings snicked in to beetle stubs.

翅膀咬进了甲虫的残根。

Yet all snakes share a lizard ancestry, and some species like pythons and boas still have stubs where their back legs would have been, the last reminders of their four-legged ancestors.

然而，所有的蛇都有个蜥蜴的祖先，些物种，如蟒蛇和蟒蛇，在它们的后所在的地方仍然有残根，这是它们的祖先的最后提醒。

There was the comb I had contrived out of the stumps of the king's beard, and another of the same materials, but fixed into a paring of her majesty's thumb-nail, which served for the back.

有把梳子，我用国王的胡须残根做成，还有把同样的材料，但固定在女王陛下的拇指指甲上，用来做后背。