He suggests using electric motors or shape-memory materials to repeatedly flick the end of a flexible, wedge-shaped wing, creating a wave that ripples backwards and generates forward thrust.

他建议采用电动机或者有形状记忆功能的材料来反复击打软体契形翅膀的末端，让水产生向后的涟漪从而获得向前的推力。

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Shaped like a manta ray, it swoops through the trees on translucent wing membranes. We get a glimpse of glassy fangs unfolding from its mouth like cat-claws, then the cannon blows it into chunks.

这是一只小斑溪，翼展至少3米 体型与蝠鲼相似，它半透明的翼膜拂过树木，我们瞥见它口里露出猫爪般透明光滑的的獠牙 夸里奇的加农炮将他击成数块。

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The craft they deployed was a wing-shaped rod the size of a bacterium.

他们设计的飞行器是一个细菌大小的翼状杆。

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He pushed the museum's most imposing feature, a flared, finger-shaped wing, underneath.

ECONOMIST: New architecture

Made of nylon sailcloth, the kites generally resemble a C-shaped wing 10 feet to 15 feet wide, with inflatable bladders holding the whole thing in a relatively rigid shape.

FORBES: Wing and a Prayer

It has a shorter, lower, thinner and more sculpted nose section, with a dramatically shaped front wing.

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