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Neither early ultrasonic “sightings” nor papery mummified corpses are always officially registered.
不管是早期超聲波檢測時肉眼看到的，還是出生時附載著的紙一樣的木乃伊小干尸，通常官方是不記載的。
Maples make those little whirlybird seeds you see spiraling down in droves each spring. Their papery little wings keep them aloft so they can find a good place to germinate and make a new maple.
正如你所看到的，每個春天楓樹的翅果都會大批地盤旋而下，它們紙一樣的薄翅能夠使自己停留在高處，這樣它們就能找到一個適合生根發(fā)芽的好地方了。
Sometimes the books do seem kind of silly and very papery, but there are moments when a sentence or a series of sentences clicks.
一些時候這些書看上去很傻，還可能味如嚼蠟，但另一些時候一個句子或是幾個句子會另人眼前一亮。

It might be getting more difficult to be a science consumer if your taste runs to the printed, papery word.
FORBES: Where Do You Get Your Science?
When I had leafed through the yellowed, musty pages, a pressed pansy, as brittle and brown as a moth's wing had zigzagged to the floor in a papery flurry.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Garden Angel'
It had also been the orbicularis muscles, more than any outstanding advance in vertebral flexion, that had permitted him to access the rear areas of his scrotum and substantial portions of the papery skin around his anus before he turned nine.
NEWYORKER: Backbone