quill feather

quill feather的意思

1. As he dropped the gleaming thing back into his robe, Simon saw that the quill end of the golden feather was attached to a writing scroll carved of pearly white stone.
    他把那个闪光的东西放回袍子里，Simon看到那只金色羽毛末端的羽茎，附在一个用珍珠般白色的石头，雕刻着的书写用的卷轴。

2. Previously it was said that Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence, the drafters of the United States) as long as the goose wings break apart and put their own to study a few will be able to make quill feather down, and our people to have easy ways to get more feathers.
    以前说托马斯杰弗逊只要把自家鹅翅膀掰开来究几根羽毛下来就能做羽毛笔了，可我们现代人还有更简单的方法搞到羽毛。

3. Sheets of vellum, animal hides specially prepared for writing, were cut down to the appropriate size. After the general layout of the page was planned, the page was lightly ruled with a pointed stick, and the scribe went to work with ink-pot and either sharpened quill feather or reed pen.
    按照一定的尺寸裁好皮纸（一种可以用来书写的动物皮）后，再经过总体的页面规划设计，将纸页用尖木棍固定，抄写者就用鹅毛笔或者苇杆笔沾著墨水开始抄写了。

4. Otherwise, you can strip it by carefully grabbing the web of the feather near the tip and pulling it away from the quill.
    或者，你可以小心地抓住靠近羽毛头部的羽片部分，并将其从羽茎上撕下来。

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