这昆虫的翅膀几乎是透明的。
具脉的，多脉的具有许多脉的，如叶子或昆虫的翅膀。
分叉从一点或一轴线叉开的，如树枝或昆虫的翅膀；展开。
Branching or spreading widely from a point or axis, as branches or on an insect's wings; diverging.
你想祂会将你变成一只老鼠的肝细胞，或着是一只昆虫的翅膀吗？
Do you think that it will conjure you into the liver cell of a mouse or the wings of an insect?
一次，Janzen正在为他的昆虫共生实验培育蜜蜂，而当昆虫的翅膀越过黑色幼体的时候，他突然发现了肉眼可见的色彩。
But once Janzen, who breeds wasps for his research on caterpillar-parasite symbioses, started to look, colors could be seen by the naked eye as wings passed over insects' black bodies.
“如果你把昆虫的翅膀举起来对着光线，那么你就能很清晰地看到里面的脉络，”学术合著人，宾夕法尼亚大学的生物进化学家Daniel Janzen如是说。
“You hold the wing up against the light, so you can see the veins, ” said study co-author Daniel Janzen, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
“如果你把昆虫的翅膀举起来对着光线，那么你就能很清晰地看到里面的脉络，”学术合著人，宾夕法尼亚大学的生物进化学家Daniel Janzen如是说。
“You hold the wing up against the light, so you can see the veins,” said study co-author Daniel Janzen, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
在她参观一家昆虫农场时，她贪婪地剥下一只冻干的蝗虫的翅膀和腿，然后兴奋地吞下了肚。
On a visit to an insect farm, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze-dried locust and crunches down with gusto.
这两种昆虫的飞行机理比较复杂，胸部长有较多肌肉，这样它们才能有力量振动翅膀。
The two insects have complex flight mechanisms with major muscles in the thorax, the chest region, which power the flapping of wings.
尽管如此，这也证实了燕尾蝶需要靠翅膀上的血管来实现稳定飞行，而不用像其他昆虫那样不停地进行调整。
However, it also confirms that swallowtails need veins on their wings to achieve stable flight, and do not need to continually adjust them as many others insects do.
陆军研究实验室的科学家指出，他们曾经成功制造了较大尺寸的机械昆虫翅膀。
ARL scientists noted that there have been successful attempts at making mechanical insect wings on a larger scale.
我喜欢研究昆虫的一个原因是当它们收起翅膀安静地呆着的时候，就像小人一般，我们很难找到他们。
One of the reasons I like studying insects is that it is difficult to see them, with their unwavering stares and robotic movements, as tiny people.
由高分辨率飞行影像取得的数据使得研究人员能够建立近乎完美的数学模型，来揭示那柔软的、扭转的翅膀怎样推动昆虫穿过空气。
Data from the high-resolution flight images allowed the researchers to create a near-perfect mathematical model of how the flexible, twisting wings propel the insect through the air.
窗户上挂着棉布薄纱，绣着昆虫翅膀和小粒珍珠。 而当我们擦肩而过时，一个顶着苍白面孔的切尔克斯人望出来并对我微笑。
Across the windows hung thin curtains of muslim embroidered with beetles' wings and with tiny seed-pearls, and as it passed by a pale-faced Circassian looked out and smiled at me.
这个微型航拍工每秒可以扇动120下的碳素纤维翅膀，是第一个昆虫大小的飞行机器人。
The tiny aerial vehicle pictured here, made with carbon-fiber wings that flap 120 times per second, is the first insect-size robot to fly.
在她参观荷兰东南部德尔讷的一家昆虫农场时，她贪婪地剥下一只冻干的蝗虫的翅膀和腿，然后兴奋地吞下了肚。
On a visit to an insect farm in Deurne in the south east Netherlands, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze dried locust and crunches down with gusto.
萤火虫是有翅膀的昆虫，会通过一种叫做生物体之发光的化学进程从腹部释放出一种绿色的夺目光芒。
Fireflies are winged beetles and give off a green luminous glow from chemicals in their lower abdomen in a process called bioluminescence.
天使、丘比特、龙和仙女，他们通常具有昆虫一样的翅膀，多数为蝴蝶和豆娘那样的翅膀。
Angels, putti, dragons and fairies are generally shown with insect wings, often those of damselfly or butterflies.
如今，一个密歇根的研发团队似乎已经解决了电池的问题。他们展示了一种能量收集器，可以直接利用昆虫翅膀扇动产生电力。
Now, a team of Michigan researchers may have finally solved the battery problem by demonstrating an energy scavenger that derives power straight from the insects own wing motion.
托马斯谈到，大多数昆虫飞行的早期模型以刚性的、折线化的翅膀为基础，忽略了挠性和轮廓的重要影响。
Most earlier models of insect flight relied on stiff, straight wings, overlooking the important effects of flexibility and shape, says Thomas.
蝗虫不够灵敏？但它们飞得远，四只翅膀的昆虫能够一气飞行几百英里。
What locusts lack in agility, they make up for in distance: the four-winged insects are built to fly hundreds of miles at a time.
他研究的昆虫是蝎蝇，通过观察他发现那些翅膀最对称的蝎蝇在求偶中做得最好。
The insects in question were scorpion flies, and the observation was that those flies whose wings were most symmetrical were the ones that did best in the mating stakes.
当我们成熟，不久我们就编织第二个卵也就是所谓的蚕茧，经历一场蜕变，再次从一种多足昆虫变成一种可以飞行的有翅膀生物。
As we mature, in time we weave a second egg known as a cocoon, and undergo a metamorphosis yet again from a multi-legged insect into a winged creature that takes flight.
而昆虫翅膀的颜色差异也已经帮助研究者们发现了3个新的蜜蜂种类。
Already the researchers used transparent wing colors to identify three new species of wasp.
根据Janzen的说法，至少还大约12种昆虫，比如蜻蜓、蟑螂、蚱蜢等，拥有和蜜蜂果蝇一样颜色多样的透明翅膀。
According to Janzen, at least a dozen other orders of insects, spanning dragonflies and cockroaches and grasshoppers, have transparent wings likely to be as colorful as those of wasps and flies.
翅膀表面微小的三维结构而非色素沉着使得诸如蓝色大闪蝶之类的昆虫展现鲜艳的色彩。
Insects such as the blue morpho butterfly appear colourful because of the tiny 3d structures on their surfaces, rather than pigmentation.
达尔文在他的日记中写道，1835年他在旅途中被一只“巨大的没有翅膀的黑色昆虫”咬了。47年后他因为心脏衰竭而死。
Darwin wrote in his diary that he was bitten by a "great wingless black bug" during the trip in 1835. He died 47 years later of heart failure.
科学家们长期以来一直认为，蝙蝠与鸟及昆虫的飞行方式是一样的，即以僵硬的、机翼似的、铰链般长在肩上的翅膀进行飞行。
Scientists have long assumed that bats fly the same way as birds and insects do ---with rigid, airplane-like wings that hinge at the shoulder.
科学家们长期以来一直认为，蝙蝠与鸟及昆虫的飞行方式是一样的，即以僵硬的、机翼似的、铰链般长在肩上的翅膀进行飞行。
Scientists have long assumed that bats fly the same way as birds and insects do ---with rigid, airplane-like wings that hinge at the shoulder.
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