he had long, dark bangs and a suggestion of whiskers on his upper lip.he introduced himself as xu nuo;in chinese, the name means 「promise,」 which he liked to use as an english name.
他额头上的头发留的很长,嘴唇上方有着浓密的胡须,他自我介绍说他叫许诺(音),名字在中文是”(许诺,承诺)promise「的意思,他非常喜欢这个意思,就把」promise「当做了他的英文名字;
“i think the authors make quite a compelling case, 」 said dr. witmer, of ohio university, adding that the study decisively closes the case on whether the whiskers are feathers or collagen.
「我想研究者们做出了引人注目的成果,」来自俄亥俄大学的witmer博士这样说,并且补充到,无论这种类似胡须的结构是羽毛或是胶原,研究成果都是相当适用。
they found that in one case, a switch that had been lost in humans normally turns on an androgen receptor at the sites where sensory whiskers develop on the face and spines develop on the penis.
他们发现在某种情况下,人类丢失的基因通常可以打开荷尔蒙受容器,在这个部位的表面上感知胡须会发育,刺会在「根」上发育。
「a fish can cover tens and hundreds of metres in that time, so whiskers compare well with the performance of whales and dolphins by echolocation, 」 dr hanke explained.
「一只鱼的动作可以在一个时间内覆盖几十上百米的范围,因此,通过回声定位能力,胡须可以很好地辨别出鲸鱼和海豚的动作。」汉克博士解释道。
these shrews live underground, and rely on their whiskers to feel what is ahead of them when they are moving around in their burrows.
伊特鲁里亚鼩鼱生活在地下,它们在地洞四处活动时,靠胡须感知前方的物体。
hanke points out that theelectro-sensory organs are derived from whiskers in ancestral animals.
汉克指出电感觉器官衍生自祖先动物的腮须。
his father, he zhimin, is a 62-year-old farmer with unruly whiskers and hands that tremble as he fingers photographs of his missing son.
他的父亲,何志敏,一个62岁的老农,胡须杂乱,当他拿出自己失蹤儿子的照片时,双手颤抖。
in experiments, a blindfolded harbor seal can detect the passage of a fish by using its whiskers to sense changes in flow velocity — even 30 seconds after its prey has passed by.
在试验中,一只被蒙住眼睛的海豹用胡子感应水流速的变化,从而发现鱼游动的路径——即使那猎物是在30秒以前经过那里的。
it has 18 whiskers of different lengths and its software moves these independently of one another, using the information thus gathered to decide whether an object is worth further investigation.
鼩鼱机器人有18根不同长度的胡须,每根胡须的活动都由软件进行单独控制,利用胡须收集到的信息来判断某个物体是否有进一步研究的价值。
tony prescott and his team at the university of sheffield, in england, for example, are attempting to replicate the exquisitely sensitive whiskers of the etruscan shrew.
比如英国谢菲尔德大学的tonyprescott及其团队正在试图仿制伊特鲁里亚鼩极其敏感的胡须。
some paleontologists argued that these whiskers were simple feathers.
一些古生物学家这些胡须就是简单的羽毛。
there is congealed blood on the bristling, feline whiskers and the cleft upper lip.
竖立着的胡须和裂开的唇上还凝结着乌血。