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

" 强壮！" 他的乌鸦一边毛，一边叫，" 强壮！强壮！"

Harder still, how do you preen your body feathers?

更麻烦的是要如何毛呢？

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

不过，也有可能只是Deecke博士看到的那只梳毛发的熊比较特别罢了。

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毛上防水。

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的岸边，站在那里，用嘴梳自己的毛。

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，欣赏着浴室地面的垫子，然后又用嘴梳了自己的毛。

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

穿上毛衣的企鹅能够防寒，并防止它们毛或是吸油。

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

妇好似乎是一个非常骄傲和敏锐的女人，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，互相梳毛发，自言自语。

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

看他在领带，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，好他的东西，又梳了他的毛，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、用嘴梳毛，偶尔还摆个姿势，直到另一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毛，除去沾染的城市灰尘，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，这些都是艺术方面的。

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，只见上方的一根树枝上坐着只大鹦鹉，正在忙着它身上的毛。

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

一个靠打扮勾人眼球的不速之客罢了。

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，这些都是艺术方面的。

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的冷漠，让左翼分子炫耀他的仇恨，”他写道。