swans

As the swans surrounded the frozen goose, she feared that the poor goose might be pecked out by those great swan bills.

像天鹅包围了冷冻的鹅，她害怕那个可怜的鹅可能被狂野那些伟大的天鹅的帐单。

They were dazzlingly white with long necks. They were swans. He did not know what the birds were.

他们有长长的脖子，全身是令人眩目的白色。他们是天鹅，他并不知道这些鸟是什麽鸟。

Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a thicket.

三只美丽的白天鹅从树荫里一直游到他面前来。

Then she told him that from her window she had seen how her brothers had flown away over the woods as swans.

接着，她告诉父亲，她从自己房间的小窗里看见，哥哥们都变成了天鹅，在森林的上空飞走了。

"I should like to see the swans eat the brioche, " said the child.

“我要看天鹅吃蛋糕。”孩子说。

At a recent talk, someone asked me to identify the four or five black swans most likely to materialise over the next five years.

在最近的一次交谈中，有人让我指出未来5年最可能出现的4到5只“黑天鹅”。

At her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga. , she collected all manner of fowl: ducks, quail, mail-order swans and peacocks.

在佐治亚州她母亲的农庄安德鲁西亚（Andalusia），她收集了各种鸟类：野鸭、鹌鹑、邮购的天鹅和孔雀。

The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him.

孩子舍不得天鹅，不住地向大池回头望，直到梅花形排列的树木在拐角处遮住了他的视线为止。

A few hours later the swans had finally shortened their necks at least to the point where they could steadily hold them.

几小时后天鹅最后缩短他们的脖子至少对他们可能稳定地拿着他们的点。

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Before Europeans discovered Australia, we had no reason to believe that swans could be any other color but white.

塔勒布：在欧洲人发现澳洲之前，我们没有理由相信天鹅除了白颜色还有其他什么颜色。

But she could not make them ugly as she wished, for they were turned into eleven beautiful wild swans.

但她没能像自己希望那样把他们变得很丑，因为他们变成了十一只美丽的天鹅。

Just in front of him he saw three beautiful white swans swimming towards him.

就在他的面前，他看到三只美丽的白天鹅向他游过来。

The ashes of its funeral pyre shall be transmuted into swans, which will swim away upon dry land as though in water.

火葬的骨灰会变成天鹅，在旱地上会像水里一样地游泳。

If I say all swans are white and who say what's your reason for saying that, and I say saw one swan just now and it was white.

如果我说所有的天鹅都是白的，谁说你说那个的原因，我说看到一只天鹅，它是白的。

There was that time by the river when I thought those big white birds were geese and Connor thought they were swans.

有一次，我们在河边散步，我觉得那些大白鸟是家鹅，他却说是天鹅。

Toads pursuit of swans, swan disdain said: If I as long as you die!

癞蛤蟆追求天鹅，天鹅不屑地说：我要是长成你这样早去死了！

Payment by results is an attractive idea, but in a world where black swans can be deliberately manufactured, results can be treacherous.

根据业绩支付报酬是一个富有吸引力的想法，但在一个“黑天鹅”能够蓄意人造的世界，业绩可能是靠不住的。

The idea state can comfort us just as the swans flapping feathers gently on this cold winter morning.

那种境界就如寒冷的冬天早晨天鹅羽毛轻拍的声音一样给人以慰藉。

A bird flu virus has been found in a pair of wild swans in the state of Michigan.

禽流感病毒在米西根州的一只野生天鹅身上被找到。

So he flew into the water and swam towards the stately swans. They saw him and darted toward him with ruffled feathers.

因而他飞到水里，向这些高贵优雅的天鹅游去：这些动物看到他，立刻就竖起羽毛向他游来。