给飞行的鸟拍照不是件容易的事。
滨鸟进化过程的唯一不同是，它们是被时间分隔的；而那些大型的、不会飞行的鸟类是被海洋所分离。
The only difference in the shorebird case is that they were separated by time, whereas the large flightless birds were separated by oceans.
人们在红色的道路上射下一只在高空飞行的鸟，它在愤怒击打的特技游戏中扮演一只移动非常快像剑一样的鸟。
Humans have shot down the wrong bird in Way of the Red, a high-flying, acrobatic game of violent swordplay starring an extremely-mobile swordsbird.
在这样一个高精密度数码相机的世界，像黑鸟飞这样的彩色模拟相机属特异的一种，因为它花费15年的时间投入飞行拍摄。
In a world of precision-engineered digital cameras, the colorfully analog Blackbird fly is a strange bird—one that took almost 15 years to hatch.
它们是西半球的大型飞行鸟。
除了“fobbits，”其它侮辱非战斗人员的老贬义词还包括“POG”（非步兵人员）及“hangar pilot(机库里的飞行员 像企鹅一样不会飞的鸟)。”
Besides "fobbit, " older insults for non-combatants include "POG" (person other than grunt) and "hangar pilot."
最新研究，科学家发现成年沙锥鸟可以在短短两天时间内完成跨州飞行，从欧洲的瑞典到撒哈拉以南的非洲地区，其间从不休息。
In a new study, scientists have discovered that great snipes can complete a transcontinental flight across Europe, from Sweden to sub-Saharan Africa, in as little as two days without resting.
他和飞行员漂流了47天——勇敢地面对鲨鱼袭击、日军扫射、饥饿和干渴，只靠暴雨和偶尔捕获的鱼和鸟维生。
He and the pilot drifted for 47 days-braving shark attacks, Japanese strafing, hunger and burning thirst, with only rainstorms and occasional fish or birds for sustenance.
不论群里有多少鸟，每只鸟的飞行的方向和速度，同其他鸟的方向和速度都是不变化的。
Regardless of size, the correlations of a bird’s orientation and velocity with the other birds’ orientation and velocity didn’t vary.
和其它迁徙鸟类一样，沙锥鸟需要飞行很长的距离，但是它们如何在如此长距离的飞行中不睡觉或者只睡很少的觉，原因尚不明确。
As with other migratory birds that fly long distances, it's unclear how great snipes can apparently fly for such long periods with little or no sleep.
中国东北发现的化石表明，有羽毛的动物很显然并不会飞行，同样那些看起来和鸟一模一样的动物也不会飞。
Fossils from north-eastern China show animals that had feathers but clearly could not have flown, as well as ones that look like proper birds.
可雷蒙德·克拉森，瑞典伦德大学的生物学家，这项研究的带头人却说，正是这些充足的脂肪储存，使沙锥鸟能够一口气完成如此长距离的飞行。
But it's these ample fat reserves that allow the birds to fly such long distances without stopping, said study leader Raymond Klaassen, a biologist at Sweden's Lund University.
始祖鸟的翅膀(顶部)与典型鹮类(中部)和已灭绝不飞行的鹮类(底部)样本对比。
The wing of Xenicibis (top) compared with that of a typical ibis Eudocimus (middle) and the extinct, flightless ibis Apteribis (bottom).
然后，最后一个方法是，召集一些狗和隼，在另一个不幸的飞行员遭殃之前用鸟枪轰走鸟。
Then, as a final resort, call in the dogs and falcons, and start blasting away with a shotgun before another unfortunate pilot cooks his goose.
很显然，翅膀是最大的功臣，那么鸟的骨头又空又细，应该也会帮助它们在飞行中减负吧！
Well, having wings obviously helps. And bird bones are hollow and seem delicate, which should help lighten the load.
日本也在酝酿向月球发射飞行器，同时已经开展了其它的太空开发活动，例如最近的前往小行星的“隼鸟号”探测器。
Japan is also mulling a moonshot, and has branched out into other space exploration, such as the recent Hayabusa mission to an asteroid.
彼得▪利萨曼以前是加州理工学院和南加州大学的航空专家，他认为由25只鸟组成的队伍会将飞行距离提升71%。
Peter Lissaman, an aeronautics expert who was for merly at Caltech and the University of Southern Cali for nia, has suggested that a for mation of 25 birds might enjoy a range increase of 71%.
这只极轻的机器鸟灵感来源于银鸥，可以自主起降飞行，无需借助于另外的驱动系统。
Dubbed the SmartBird, the ultralight flying robot was inspired by the herring gull and can take off, fly and land autonomously, without the help of any additional drive systems.
我立即加速并计算着导弹到达黑鸟飞行高度所需的时间 - 它们很可能是苏联制SA-2和SA-4地对空导弹，最大速度可达3马赫。
I quickly increased our speed, calculating the time it would take for the weapons-most likely SA-2 and SA-4 surface-to-air missiles capable of Mach 5 - to reach our altitude.
如果“始祖鸟”是一只恐龙，这意味着飞行能力在脊椎动物史里进化了至少4次：爬行类、鸟类、恐龙，还有最近的一次——蝙蝠。
If Archaeopteryx was a dinosaur, this means flight evolved at least four times in vertebrates: in reptiles, birds, dinosaurs, and most recently in bats.
第一种被确认的大型鸟则是卡岗杜亚鸟，它生活在约7000万年前的法国南部地区，这种鸟也有可能不会飞行而且长得像鸵鸟。
The first to be identified was Gargantuavis philoinos, which lived in southern France around 70 million years ago. It too may have been flightless and ostrich-like.
上个月，因弗内斯城的小学生们发现一只一直关注的红风筝鸟停止了运动——他们将卫星定位装置绑在一只鸟腿上，并通过英特网观察鸟的飞行。
Last month primary-school children in Inverness became concerned when a red kite-whose movements they had been watching over the Internet via a satellite-linked tag on the bird-stopped moving.
与另一种较少飞行的鹮类化石进行对比后——Apteribisglenos——Olson和同事A .Wetmore在1976年对此进行了描述，始祖鸟是科学史上发现的首例较少飞行的鹮类样本。
Along with another fossil flightless ibis - Apteribis glenos - described by Olson and colleague A. Wetmore in 1976, Xenicibis was one of the first flightless ibis to be recognized by science.
与另一种较少飞行的鹮类化石进行对比后——Apteribisglenos——Olson和同事A .Wetmore在1976年对此进行了描述，始祖鸟是科学史上发现的首例较少飞行的鹮类样本。
Along with another fossil flightless ibis - Apteribis glenos - described by Olson and colleague A. Wetmore in 1976, Xenicibis was one of the first flightless ibis to be recognized by science.
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