Music, and also art, fashion and even literature, are reckoned by many Darwinists to be the human equivalent of the peacock's tail; done well, they show off the genetic prowess of the creator.

音乐以及艺术、时尚甚至文学，一直被许多达尔文学说崇拜者比作可与孔雀尾巴相媲美的人类创作精华；说得很好，它们凸显了创造者的遗传实力。

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Yet even to many of his admirers, the thrill of seeing the American lion's tail violently yanked proved short-lived.

但是，即便对于他的很多崇拜者来说，看到美国的老虎尾巴猛然翘起时的紧张也是短暂的。

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Since the incentives for individual bloggers are not many, betting the business on the long tail of the blogosphere is risky.

自从个人博客创作者的积极性受到打击，可以想见依赖长尾效应在博客上赚钱的公司是在冒险。

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Moreover, the curve was skewed to the right, with a long tail, however slender, of patients who lived many years longer than the eight-month median.

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The yellow-footed wallaby of the Yellow Tail label inspired so many imitations (from Little Penguin to Black Swan) that a 2008 Nielsen study showed 18% of all new wine launches in the previous three years were "critter" brands.

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Beneath these is a long tail of smaller operators, many of them online, from the legitimate to the thoroughly dodgy.

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