downy

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Seals that are weaned and have shed their downy fur are called beaters for the way they beat their flippers on the water.
斷奶后褪去一身絨毛的海豹被稱為打手，因其總是在水上拍打它們的鰭狀肢。
Like mummies coming back from the dead, their animated faces emerge in the firelight, revealing downy wisps of beard and boyish grins.
象死而復(fù)生的木乃伊，他們的臉在火光間出現(xiàn)了，露出毛茸茸的小束胡須和孩子氣的笑容。
Its cultivation may be ancient—dating as far back as 5,000 years ago—but cotton, and its characteristically soft, downy fibers, could be just what modern medicine has been waiting for.
棉花的種植歷史也許非常悠久——可以追溯到迄今5,000年前——但它和它富有特性、柔軟光滑的纖維可能正是現(xiàn)代醫(yī)學(xué)所要尋找的東西。

She pointed to the largest of the eggs, which had a downy feather stuck to it.
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He liked her smell and her downy arms and the way she exclaimed when something made her laugh.
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Her sleeves were pushed up to her elbows, and he found himself looking at her narrow wrists and the fine, downy hair on her arms.
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