Once she finds the perfect spot, she breaks off her wings — creating the stubs that establish her royal status.

一旦找到理想位置后，她就折断翅膀——生出作为她皇位标根。

Wings snicked in to beetle stubs.

翅膀咬进了甲虫根。

Yet all snakes share a lizard ancestry, and some species like pythons and boas still have stubs where their back legs would have been, the last reminders of their four-legged ancestors.

然而，所有都有一个蜥蜴祖先，一些物种，如，在它们后腿所在地方仍然有根，这是它们四条腿祖先最后提醒。

There was the comb I had contrived out of the stumps of the king's beard, and another of the same materials, but fixed into a paring of her majesty's thumb-nail, which served for the back.

有一把梳子，我用国王胡须根做成，还有一把同样材料，但固定在女王陛下拇指指甲上，用来做后背。