Unearthed in China, fossils of feathered dinosaurs offer the most dramatic evidence yet discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
在中国出土的有羽毛的恐龙化石为恐龙和鸟类之间的密切进化关系提供了迄今为止最引人注目的证据。
The robin thought he spoke this gibberish to them because they were not intelligent enough to understand feathered speech.
知更鸟认为他对他们胡言乱语，因为他们不够聪明，听不懂鸟类的语言。
They all kind of looked like feathered dino-birds.
他们都看起来有些像长了羽毛的恐龙与鸟的复合体。
Meet Dilong wasn't just small, but probably feathered.
帝龙(Dilong)不仅个头小，而且很可能还长着羽毛。
The crew feathered (their OARS) for the last few yards of the race.
在划船比赛到最后几码时，全体队员回桨时把桨叶持平。
So bird lovers take heart, your feathered friends are innocent avians.
所以鸟类爱好者们振作起来吧，你们长着羽毛的朋友是无辜的。
The sun is blazing from a blue sky feathered lightly with cirrus cloud.
这一天阳光明媚，蔚蓝天空中飘着些许云彩。
Why feathered dinosaurs eventually took to the air to become true birds is a mystery.
为什么带有羽翼的恐龙最后跃上蓝天变成了真正的鸟类，至今仍然是个迷。
Some paleontologists now say Archaeopteryx may have been a feathered non-avian dinosaur.
今天的某些古生物学家认为始祖鸟可能是一种带有羽毛的非鸟恐龙。
Another switch was from the iconic dark-feathered Bronze turkey to a white-feathered one.
另一个转变是从青铜火鸡到白火鸡。
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
他降肉像雨在他们当中，多如尘土，又降飞鸟，多如海沙。
Aflock’s worth of other feathered fossil species, some more avian andsome less, has also been found.
人们还发现了大量有羽毛生物的化石，它们与鸟类的关系远近不一。
Wow - our jaws hit the floor when Emma stepped out in this daring Chanel fringed and feathered dress.
哇——当艾玛穿着这件大胆的Chanel流苏羽毛礼服走出来的刹那，所有人都大跌眼镜。
The Yixian Formation also yielded Sinosauropteryx, the first physical evidence of a feathered dinosaur.
古生物学家在义县组发掘出了中华龙鸟，它是羽毛恐龙的首个直接物证
The scientists also looked at a piece of the tail of Sinosauropteryx, the first feathered dinosaur ever found.
科学家们同样也研究了中华龙鸟尾部的一片化石，这是目前找到的最早有羽毛的恐龙。
Prof Roger Wotton found that flight would be impossible for angels portrayed with arms and bird-like feathered wings.
RogerWotton教授发现，被描绘成拥有手臂和羽毛翅膀的天使其实是飞不起来的。
Many feathered dinosaurs did not have wings or were too heavy, relative to the length of their feathered limbs, to fly.
很多长有羽毛的恐龙因为没有翅膀，或相对于长毛的前肢来说身体过于沉重，因此也无法飞行。
Theropods were early winged and feathered dinosaurs that walked mainly on their hind legs and were incapable of flight.
兽脚亚目食肉恐龙是早期的有翼和羽的恐龙，其主要靠后足行走且不会飞行。
Scientists also hypothesized that feathered dinosaurs had lice and determined that yawns are contagious among chimpanzees.
科学家还猜测有羽毛的恐龙会生虱子，还认定呵欠在黑猩猩中也是会传染的。
The abundance of feathered fossils has allowed paleontologists to examine a fundamental question: Why did feathers evolve?
丰沛的羽毛化石使得古生物学家有条件来验证一个最基本的问题：为什么羽毛会进化？
Some scientists argue that feathered dinosaurs evolved flight from the ground up, flapping their feathered arms as they ran.
一些研究者认为羽毛恐龙是从零开始进化出飞行能力的，它们在奔跑中会拍动自己带羽毛的前肢。
Two museums of treasures from the Pre-Inca Paracas culture, including mummies and feathered garments, lost their outer walls.
两座存有前印加帕拉·卡斯文明珍宝——包括木乃伊和羽毛外衣——的博物馆的外墙倒塌了。
Males stand and protect the egg by balancing them on their feet and covering them with feathered skin known as a brood pouch.
雄性站在那里保护这个卵，用双脚保持它的平衡，并用被称为育儿袋的有羽毛的皮肤覆盖着它。
So, even if the feathered bird wasn't there at the first Thanksgiving, the Turkey quickly became a fixture at future tables.
所以，就算在1621年那第一个感恩节大餐上没有火鸡，它也很快成为餐桌上的常客了。
The clearest and most striking of the specimens can be seen to have four wings, extensive plumage and profusely feathered feet.
其中最清晰、最引人注目的化石标本上，可依稀看出它有四个翅膀、全身羽毛分布广泛、连脚上都被有羽毛。
This could also explain why there are higher populations of dark feathered birds in urban areas, where parasite prevalence is higher.
这就解释了为何城市中深色羽毛的鸟类较多，因为这些地区寄生虫患病率较高。
"If Archaeopteryx were discovered today, I don't think you would call it a bird. You would call it a feathered dinosaur," says Carrano.
“如果始祖鸟是在今天发现的，我觉得古生物学家们肯定不会说它是鸟类，其实它就是一种带羽毛的恐龙，”卡里诺说。
Microraptor, from the Dromaeosaur family, was not an ancestor of birds, but it was also unlike any previously discovered feathered dinosaur.
虽然它并不是鸟类的祖先，但小盗龙和先前所发现的带羽毛恐龙并不相像。
Microraptor, from the Dromaeosaur family, was not an ancestor of birds, but it was also unlike any previously discovered feathered dinosaur.
虽然它并不是鸟类的祖先，但小盗龙和先前所发现的带羽毛恐龙并不相像。
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