take wingliteraryHBBTRAVEL to fly away 飞走take wing• Often they perch on rooftops like gargoyles, waiting hours for nightfall so they can take wing.• Her heart had taken wing as she and Mandy had walked down into the lodge.• Abroad, too, imagination took wing.• Freed in the slipstream of profanity, it took wing.
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