Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.

让我们觉得自己是身着旧衣的新人，觉得保有旧衣就像将新酒装入了旧瓶一样。

In protected areas, an average female skipped moulting to produce eggs about once in four years.

在保护区，平均每四年雌性会跳过一次蜕皮来产卵。

Palm trees stood as tall as the ornate French colonial buildings that were moulting bits and pieces of decor like flesh-dripping zombies.

棕榈树和法国殖民时期的华丽建筑一样高大，这些建筑像滴血的僵尸一样蜕去了零碎的装饰。

They measured them, sexed them and tagged them, and also studied them for evidence of moulting, before releasing them.

他们测量了它们，确定了它们的性别并给它们贴上了标签，还在释放它们之前研究了它们是否有蜕皮的证据。

So, since carrying eggs stops females being harvested, she guessed that there would be a pressure for them to carry eggs more frequently, thus moulting less often and growing more slowly.

因此，由于携带卵子会阻止雌性被收获，她猜测它们会面临更频繁地携带卵子的压力，因此蜕皮次数减少，生长速度更慢。

He sat down in the only remaining chair but leapt up again almost immediately, pulling from underneath him a moulting, gray feather duster—at least, that was what Harry thought it was, until he saw that it was breathing.

他坐到仅剩的一张椅子上，但马上又跳了起来，从屁股下面拉出一个掉毛的灰鸡毛掸子——至少哈利以为那是个鸡毛掸子，随即发现它居然在呼吸。

You speak of a furrow and a harrow as being the same thing; you talk of the moulting season for cows; and you recommend the domestication of the polecat on account of its playfulness and its excellence as a ratter!

你说犁沟和耙子是一样的 事物;你谈到奶牛的换毛季节；并且您推荐驯化臭鼬， 因为它很爱玩， 而且非常擅长捕鼠！