To Virginia Tech biologist Jake Socha, these curious reptiles are something of a biomechanical wonder.
对于弗吉尼亚理工大学的生物学家杰克索洽来说，这些稀奇的爬行动物是生物力学中的奇迹。
Socha, a Virginia Tech biologist, and his team launched the flying snakes from an over 49 foot tower and recorded the snakes' every move to the finest detail.
Socha是来自弗吉尼亚州的一名生命科学家，他的团队让蛇在49英尺高的塔楼上保持飞行，并录下了蛇在飞行中的最细微的细节。
To find out if this might be deliberate, Dr Socha limited their view from the tower so that they could see only straight ahead when they launched themselves.
为了探明树蛇是否故意发出这一行为，Socha博士限制了树蛇在飞行时的视野，目的是让他们在起飞时只能向前看。
To discover how snakes manage it Jake Socha of Virginia Tech and his colleagues conducted a series of test flights with paradise tree snakes, a mildly venomous variety found in parts of Asia.
为了查明蛇类如何成功的飞行很远，维吉尼亚理工学院的JakeSocha和其同事用一些天堂树蛇做了一系列的飞行试验，这是一种毒性适中的蛇，它生长在亚洲部分地区。
In order to understand how they do what they do, Socha and his colleagues recently studied Chrysopelea paradisi snakes as they launched themselves off a branch at the top of a 15-meter-tall tower.
为了了解这些飞蛇是怎样做到“飞行”的，最近索洽和他的同事将自己放在十五米的高塔顶端的分支上来研究Chrysopeleaparadisi蛇。
In order to understand how they do what they do, Socha and his colleagues recently studied Chrysopelea paradisi snakes as they launched themselves off a branch at the top of a 15-meter-tall tower.
为了了解这些飞蛇是怎样做到“飞行”的，最近索洽和他的同事将自己放在十五米的高塔顶端的分支上来研究Chrysopeleaparadisi蛇。
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