pterosaurs

pterosaurs

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• n.飞龙目动物
• 网络翼龙；翼手龙；翼龙类

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英汉解释

n.

1. 飞龙目动物

英英解释

n.	1. an extinct flying reptile of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods that had membranous wings supported by an elongated fourth digit.

例句

The wind that made such waves however, might have been too strong for the pterosaurs to control their flight once airborne.

然而，能产生此种大浪的风可能对翼龙来说过于猛烈，以至于它一旦升空，就无法控制自己。

Unable to fly or walk, Hesperornis needed to be wary of predators: sharks and plesiosaurs at sea, dinosaurs and pterosaurs on land.

由于不能飞也不能步行，黄昏鸟需要警惕掠食者们：水中有鲨鱼和蛇颈龙，岸上有恐龙和翼龙。

Amazing 3D Canyon Flight Screensaver allows you to fly through photo-realistic three-dimensional canyon full of ancient pterosaurs.

24下载惊人的3D峡谷飞行屏幕保护程序允许你通过照片般逼真的三维的峡谷，充满了古老的翼龙飞行。

Pterosaurs, also sometimes referred to as pterodactyls, dominated the skies in the Mesozoic Era, 220-65 million years ago.

翼龙又被称为翼手龙，生活在距今22亿年到6亿5千万年前的中生代，它们是天空的统治者。

The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have intrigued paleontologists for more than two centuries.

该恐龙化石的第一次飞行脊椎动物的尸骨，有好奇古生物的两个多世纪。

Scientists have long assumed that pterodactyls, also called pterosaurs, flew just like birds, and launched themselves using their hind legs.

科学家们长期以来假设翼手龙（也叫翼龙）和鸟儿一样地的飞翔，也使用它们的后腿来起飞。

Perhaps the least controversial assertion about the pterosaurs is that they were reptiles.

可能，最少引起争论的意见就是翼龙是爬行动物。

The pterosaurs resembled both birds and bats in their overall structure and proportions.

翼龙和鸟类以及蝙蝠在总体结构及比例上很相似。

Both the pterosaurs and the birds have hollow bones, a feature that represents a savings in weight.

翼龙和鸟都有中空的骨头，这是为了节省重量。

Instead, he says that pterosaurs needed all four limbs for liftoff.

他说翼龙需要使用它们所有的四肢来起飞。

The second hypothesis seems unlikely because large pterosaurs could not have landed in trees without damaging their wings.

第二种假设，似乎不大可能，因为大翼龙无法降落在树木不损害自己的翅膀。

Pterosaurs are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, between 210 million and 65 million years ago

翼龙属可飞行的爬行类动物，生活在大约在2.1亿年至6500万年之前，与恐龙生活在同一时期。