How did this strange bird come to dominate the dinner table?

这种怪怪的飞禽是如何成为餐桌主角的呢？

There were many strange birds and animals on the shore.

岸上有许多奇特的鸟和动物。

I have many strange birds stop with me here.

“我有许多奇怪的鸟儿和我一起停在这里。

He felt as if he were being led to look at some strange bird's nest and must move softly.

他觉得自己好像被领着去看什么奇怪的鸟巢，必须动作轻柔。

Usually, if a strange bird appeared on Bird Lake, one of the keepers would report its arrival to the Head Man in Charge of Birds, whose office was in the Bird House.

通常，如果鸟湖上来了一只陌生的鸟儿，其中的一个管理员就会向鸟类管理负责人汇报，他的办公室就设在鸟屋里。

The cuckoo lays its egg in the strange bird's nest, and when the young one is hatched it shoulders its foster-brothers out and breaks at last the nest that has sheltered it.

杜鹃把蛋下到别的鸟巢里，当雏鸟孵出以后，就把它的异母兄弟们挤出巢外，最后还要把庇护它的巢窝毁掉。

But Sylvie was silent. You would know it if you saw it, he added. It's a tall, strange bird with soft white feathers and long thin legs. It probably has its nest at the top of a tall tree.

但是，西尔维没说话。他补充说：" 如果你看到它，就能认出来。它体型高大，长得也很奇怪，有柔软的白色羽毛和细长的腿。它可能把巢筑在了一棵高大的树木顶部。"

Oh, 'twas some strange birds from ever so far away; not so many of them, just six white birds, all exactly alike, waddling this way and that about the fields, and pecking at the grass now and then.

哦，那是从很远的地方来的一些奇怪的鸟； 数量不多，只有六只白色的鸟， 全都一模一样， 在田野里摇摇晃晃地走来走去， 不时啄食草地。