Yet this is not because the fatty domestic duck is not poetic enough, but because after a thousand years of genetic improvement and interference by humans, even by Wang's time domestic ducks could barely get off the ground.
倒不是說肥油淋淋的家鴨不夠詩意，而是經人類千年的基因改良、玩弄，家鴨已幾乎飛不起來。