What those early craftsmen had found by trial and error was that under pressure a pagoda's loose stack of floors could be made to slither to and fro independent of one another.
"那些早期的工匠通过反复试验发现：在压力作用下，宝塔松散堆叠的楼层可以彼此独立地来回滑动。
The elongated, serpentine body that allows land snakes to slither through dense grass also serves aquatic snakes in propelling through the water.
这种细长蜿蜒的身体能让陆地上的蛇在茂密的草丛中爬行，也能让水蛇在水中游动。
Tonya screamed when she saw a snake slither across the yard.
托雅看见有条蛇爬过院子时高声尖叫了起来。
Tattoos of spiders and snakes slither along the mummy's arms.
木乃伊的手臂上纹有蜘蛛和蛇的图案。
More often than not, the rattlesnake will slither away in search of a less intimidating foe.
多数情况下，响尾蛇会爬开，去寻找不这么吓人的猎物。
Gaza, a slither of land sandwiched between Egypt and Israel, has only three bookshops for its 1.5m people.
加沙地处埃以之间狭长的夹缝中， 150万人口却只有三家书店。
The elongated, serpentine body that allows land snakes to slither through dense grass also serves aquatic snakes in propelling through water.
伸长的、蜿蜒的躯体可以使得陆生蛇类在浓密的草丛间滑动，也能使水生蛇类在水里游动自如。
His previous research, often inspired by beauty in nature, has investigated questions such as how snakes slither and how the Venus fly trap snaps its jaws.
马哈德文此前进行的各项研究，常常是受自然之美的启发，比如他的研究课题就包括这样的问题：蛇是如何向前滑动的？捕蚊草的捕蚊口是怎样咬合的？
There are ground-based robots, for example, designed to climb up and down piles of rubble and slither into otherwise inaccessible cracks to look for survivors.
比如说，地面机器人，被设计为能爬上爬下瓦砾堆以及进入人类难以进入的裂缝搜寻幸存者。
Look closely and you can see that these are not fins, they're toes, and the creature didn't 2 slither or drag itself on its stomach, it walked 3 on all fours.
仔细看你就会发现这些不是鱼鳍，而是脚趾。这些动物并不是拖拽着身体或肚皮贴在陆地上爬行，它们是靠四足行走。
Look closely and you can see that these are not fins, they're toes, and the creature didn't 2 slither or drag itself on its stomach, it walked 3 on all fours.
仔细看你就会发现这些不是鱼鳍，而是脚趾。这些动物并不是拖拽着身体或肚皮贴在陆地上爬行，它们是靠四足行走。
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