Using their long slender bills, they reach deep inside flowers and pump out nectar with their thin grooved tongues.

它们用细长的喙伸入花朵深处，用带凹槽的细舌吸出花蜜。

Then, there was a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse in whose sheltering shadow they sat.

这时，随着的旁边房梁倒塌的响声，思嘉看见一股火苗在他们身边那个仓库的屋顶上升起。