It can also sense light. The antenna sends information to the brain of the butterfly, controlling its behavior.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation and alive. It has eyes on its wings.

这只蝴蝶是一个完美的艺术作品,因为它不但是画像，也是,鲜活的，它的翅膀上有眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This was very big in an ad campaign at least last year, I'm not sure if it still is, with the little butterfly.

它的广告宣传做得很大，至少在去年是这样的，我不确定它现在还是不是，它这里有一个小蝴蝶。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Severe winter weather, heavy rains and landslides are believed to have destroyed much of the butterfly population.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But this year, experts say the butterfly population has dropped by as much as fifty percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

And the butterfly does appear in just one moment, and it's during the tennis scene. As Humbert and Lolita play, there is one butterfly that flits between them. It's a mark of their equality as artists in that moment.

那蝴蝶曾经在短短的一瞬出现过，那是,在那个打网球的场景里，当亨伯特和洛丽塔打球的时候，一只,蝴蝶从他们中间飞过，它标志着他们在那个时刻是艺术家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The bottom of the root ball will look something like the spread-open wings of a butterfly.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

Can you make a novel, as he says in the essay, that will "sprout wings and grow claws" in secret in his mind? That's an image taken from the metamorphosis of the butterfly within the chrysalis.

你能够让一本小说，就像他在那篇文章里说的那样，会在他,脑海里秘密的“展开翅膀，伸出爪子“？，这是从蝴蝶羽化中,借鉴来的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That was all Tuesday. The next day, Michael Phelps competed in the two hundred meter butterfly.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He could not forget how the little lizard and the butterfly had died.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

She said she became a butterfly pinned down and singing away in Movieland.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

At this moment, a beautiful butterfly flew over the garden wall.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

This week,we will tell about North America's monarch butterfly.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Steven Reppert also studies butterfly migration.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29