Central African tribes and ancient Egyptians described and depicted a bizarre creature for centuries, colloquially dubbed the "African unicorn" by Europeans.
几个世纪以来中非部落和古埃及一直在描述一种奇怪的生物，欧洲人把它通俗地称为“非洲独角兽”。
It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean's largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species.
作为海洋中最大的生物，蓝鲸很难追踪，但由于商业捕鲸，它们几乎灭绝，现在已被列为濒危物种。
The consequences of interacting with the array of sharp spines on a sea urchin or porcupine are pretty obvious to any creature passing by.
与海胆或豪猪身上的尖刺相互作用的结果对任何经过的生物来说都是相当明显的。
Shubin distinguished himself by leading an expedition to the Arctic, which uncovered the remains of a fish with a wrist-a creature with part fin and limb.
舒宾的杰出成就是带领了一次北极探险。在这次探险中，他们发现了一种半鳍半肢的动物——一条有腕的鱼化石。
Perhaps she is overcome by the heat, poor creature; or possibly she has not had any food to-day.
也许她是中暑了，可怜的人；又或许她今天没有吃东西。
The world's largest colony of leatherback sea turtles has been identified by scientists, raising hopes that the giant creature may not be as endangered as previously thought.
科学家最近发现了世界上数量最多的棱皮龟群体，这无疑唤起了一些信心，或许这种巨型动物并不像以前所认为的那样濒临灭绝。
It is well to remember that the modern corporation is an amoral creature by definition, obliged to its shareholder financiers, not to the public interest.
人们要记住，现在的公司可以被我们定义为没有道德的一群人，因为他们只效忠于公司股东，而不是为公共的利益服务。
The unusual creature was first spotted by South African biologists Mike Picker and Jonathan Colville.
这种非同一般的生物是由南非的生物学家MikePicker和Jonathan Colville最先发现的。
The bulging-eyed robot, developed by the Ryomei Engineering Company, resembles a Japanese mythological creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a fish.
这个眼睛鼓鼓的机器人是日本Ryomei工程公司制作的，它的造型来自于日本神话中的一个虎头鱼身的动物。
The fossil is of a lemur-like animal which was nicknamed Ida, while the official name is Darwinius masillae because the creature is a proof that confirms the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin.
化石长得有点像狐猴，科学家们把它叫做“艾达”，至于它的正式名称则是Darwiniusmasillae （达尔文的梅塞尔猿），因为这一生物是查尔斯达尔文的进化论的有力证明。
But man is not the creature, so much as he is the creator, of circumstances: [108] and, by.
但与其说人是环境的创造物，不如他说是其创造者：[108]而且，人通过运用他的自由意志，可以控制他的行为，让这些行为都出自善而非恶。
In early January 2010, another group of scientists found the oldest fossilized footprints made by a four-legged creature
在波兰东南部的圣十字山的一座废弃的采石场，（科学家）曾发现过动物脚印的化石，经鉴定，为3.95亿年前形成，比发现的最古老的四角龙（一种拥有四肢而非鳍的脊椎动物）化石要早1.8亿年。
As a fossil hunter, Shubin distinguished himself by leading an expedition to the Arctic in 2004 which uncovered the remains of a fish with a wrist, a creature with part fin, part limb.
作为一名化石搜寻者，舒宾的杰出成就是在2004年带领了一次北极探险。在这次探险中，他们发现了一种半鳍半肢的动物——一条有腕的鱼化石。
Sure, robots have been playing sports for ages, but seeing this here creature revived begs the question: why don't we all have one or two of these laying around the house by now?
当然，机器人会玩体育运动并不稀奇。但这种发明让我们又一次想起一个被回避的问题：为什么我们不买一个或两个机器人放在家里呢？
By the end of each video, the mold has found the most efficient paths and sticks to them, but as the continuous activity highlights, the resilient creature could always form new networks if needed.
每个影片的最后由于持续的活动重点是能屈能伸的动物总是可以形成新的网络，如果需要坚持给他们模具发现的最有效途径。
For years sharks were caught chiefly for their fins; often, indeed, the fins would be cut off and the creature thrown back in the water alive, there to suffer a slow death by drowning.
很多年来，捕捉鲨鱼主要就是为了获取它们的鳍。实际上，鲨鱼鳍经常被割掉，而其身体被活活地扔回水里，使其因溺水遭受缓慢死亡的痛苦。
The new creature is from the Darwinopterus genus, or grouping, but has been dubbed simply as "Mrs T" (a contraction of "Mrs Pterodactyl") by the research team.
这次的新发现是达尔文翼龙群，但目前一般被研究小组简称为“T夫人”(翼龙夫人的缩写)。
By comparing photos of rotting fish to fossils, researchers can guess what the extinct creature looked like.
通过比较腐鱼与化石的照片，研究人员能猜测出已灭绝物种的形状。
Cities may be the epitome of modernity, but they are inhabited by a creature designed for a pre-agricultural existence.
城市也许是现代性的典范，而它们的居民却是为农业化之前的时代所生的物种。
The rush to protect a possibly non-existent bird's habitat may seem odd: but, if discovered, the creature would be protected by the Endangered Species Act.
这一保护一种可能不存在的鸟类的栖息地的热潮看起来也许很奇怪，但是一旦发现，这一物种将受到频危物种法案的保护。
The rush to protect a possibly non-existent bird’s habitat may seem odd: but, if discovered, the creature would be protected by the Endangered Species Act.
这一保护一种可能不存在的鸟类的栖息地的热潮看起来也许很奇怪，但是一旦发现，这一物种将受到频危物种法案的保护。
The creature uses magic to show the images of Harry with Hermione Granger, played by Watson, to Ron, who is madly in love with her.
这只妖兽在罗恩身上施展了法术，使他看到哈利和赫敏•格兰杰在一起的幻象，而此时的罗恩正疯狂地爱着赫敏。
When the creature returned as an autonomous force with demands that it insisted were met, its creator was unable to find a way to repair the damage done by his imperfect invention.
当书中被制造的再生人返回，以武力要挟维维克（制造者）要求维克满足它的需要时，制造者维克却不能够找到合适的方法来修复他的不完美发明所带来的破坏。
This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
这是我在迦巴鲁河边所见，以色列神荣耀以下的活物，我就知道他们是基路伯。
Madhuri, an Indian elephant, swings a monitor lizard around by its tail. The unlucky creature had been swept off the ground and was carried around for a number of days by the elephant.
亚洲象曼徳胡里抓住一只巨蜥的尾巴抡来抡去，这不幸的动物被大象带着跑了好几天。
But by far, the coolest/weirdest thing about this sea creature is its ability to hypnotize its prey using what's knowns as "photophores" on its arms.
这家伙最冷血或者最奇特的地方在于，它可以用它“手臂”上所谓的发光体来蛊惑猎物。
But by far, the coolest/weirdest thing about this sea creature is its ability to hypnotize its prey using what's knowns as "photophores" on its arms.
这家伙最冷血或者最奇特的地方在于，它可以用它“手臂”上所谓的发光体来蛊惑猎物。
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