They tended to lay smaller eggs, and fewer of them, when they mated with inbred birds as opposed to the better songsters.

当雌性金丝雀同近亲交配，而不是与更好的鸣禽交配时，它们产下的蛋个头较小，而且数量也会减少。

He was a songster, enjoying sonata and sonnet.

他是个歌唱家，欣赏奏鸣曲和十四行诗。

Then the torrents chant their noblest anthems, and then is the flood-time of our songster's melody.

然后激流吟唱着他们最崇高的歌曲， 然后是我们歌手旋律的泛滥时期。

She now knew what the nightingale was sighing the livelong night, what the songster of the sedges hymned with his plaintive note.

她现在知道夜莺在长夜里叹息着什么，莎草的歌者用他哀伤的音符赞美着什么。

Now and then I notice one of the smaller songsters who seems to strain his throat in a madly joyous endeavour to out-carol all the rest.

我时不时地注意到一个小歌手似乎在疯狂地快乐地努力使他的喉咙紧绷， 以超越所有其他人的颂歌。

But just then the confiding songster began to sing, and after listening to his summery melody the charmed hunter turned away, saying, " Bless your little heart, I can't shoot you, not even for Tom" .

但就在这时，倾诉的歌手开始唱歌，迷人的猎人听了他那充满夏日气息的旋律后转过身去，说：“保佑你的小心脏，我不能射你，即使是为了汤姆。”

He was a banker, when by chance he fell into a doze at day-break, the cobbler awoke him with his song. Having at length sent for the songster, he said to him, " How much a year do you earn, Master Gregory? "

他是个银行家，有时，他在黎明时分迷迷糊糊刚入睡，皮匠的歌声便把他吵醒了。后来，银行家就叫人把这位皮匠歌手请来，问道：“格列戈里师傅，你一年赚多少钱？”