1:Dr Full and his colleagues have since identified similar behaviour in other animals with hooklike toes that are good at escaping pursuit: geckos, for example.[...]112:They have also teamed up with members of Berkeley's robotics laboratory to program a small six-legged robot that has strips of Velcro attached to its rear legs to do the same trick.3:Such a robot could be fitted with a camera and used as a surveillance device.

1:Full博士和同事后来又发现了其他具有类似特性的生物，它们同样具有钩状的脚趾并擅长逃离追杀，比如壁虎。[...]112:他们也与伯克利分校机器人实验室合作，设计了一只小型六脚机器人，然后把魔术贴粘在机器人的后腿上，最后成功完成了类似动作。3:这种机器人可以用来装配相机作为监视装置，尽管如此，一些人更希望它装配微型机枪变成自动蟑螂捕杀器。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-蟑螂是怎么消失不见的?

In recent months it has been mopping up robotics firms, most notably Boston Dynamics, which makes two- and four-legged machines with names like BigDog and Cheetah that can walk and run.

近几个月，它则买下了不少机器人公司，其中值得注意的是波士顿动力，一家制作名为大狗或者猎豹的双足和四足机器人的公司，这些机器人能够行走和跑动。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-谷歌公司 无处不在的谷歌

They have also teamed up with members of Berkeley's robotics laboratory to program a small six-legged robot that has strips of Velcro attached to its rear legs to do the same trick.

他们也与伯克利分校机器人实验室合作，设计了一只小型六脚机器人，然后把魔术贴粘在机器人的后腿上，最后成功完成了类似动作。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-昆虫的绝活 非常蟑螂

So this week, in a rickety wooden inn in Tokyo, sitting cross-legged on tatami mats with Apple Macs on their laps, he and fellow Harvard students conducted seminars for Japanese high-school students on subjects ranging from anime to Thomas Hobbes.

因此这个星期，在东京一间不稳固的木屋酒店里，他和几位哈佛同学盘腿坐在榻榻米上，腿上放着苹果Macs笔记本电脑，为日本高中生举办了一个研讨会，从日本动画谈到托马斯 霍布斯。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-日本招聘

The reason they have not is that in the normal, two-legged gait the foot is in contact with the ground for only around one-tenth of a second, 0.05 seconds less than when hopping.

之所以没有出现这样的情况是因为在正常情况下，双腿跑动时，脚和地面的接触时间仅有十分之一秒，比跳跃时少0.05秒。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-运动员的表现

In 1988, Rodney Brooks' lab at MIT created this six-legged walker, which taught itself how to scramble over boards and other obstacles.

1988年，麻省理工学院的罗德尼·布鲁克斯实验室研制出了这只六腿行者，它能在平面上行走并能翻越障碍物。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Grave goods, including this plump-legged vessel, served the needs of the dead, letting ancestors perform afterlife ceremonies.

包括这只粗腿容器在内的随葬品应亡者的需要让先祖举行来世的仪式。

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Polar bears are the biggest four-legged carnivore on land, almost three times bigger than the brown bears that dominate Alaska's interior.

北极熊是陆地上最大的四条腿食肉动物，比主宰阿拉斯加内陆的棕熊大了近三倍。

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Moe, a six-legged Styrofoam sheep was busy roaming and trimming the grounds at the city's conservatory several miles away.

比如，六条腿的泡沫塑料山羊莫伊（Moe）正忙着在几英里以外的温室里漫步和剪草。

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Long-legged towers, an eye-shaped window, and a trunk balcony make it a distinct landmark in the Bangkok skyline

长腿塔，象眼窗，身躯露台，使它成为曼谷地平线上独特的地标。

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Pet First Aid helps you provide the basic care and attention that your four-legged friend might need in a medical emergency.

宠物急救帮助你对狗提供基本的照顾和关注，假如你四条腿的朋友需要在一个医疗急救。

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Bugging Out: Astronauts test a prototype of a six-legged lunar buggy at Moses Lake in Washington. NASA

出动：宇航员在华盛顿州的摩西湖测试一辆六脚月球机动车（实物）。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But which four-legged relatives and their family traits led the transition for legless snakes?

但是，哪种具有四肢的近亲及其特征导致了向无四肢的蛇的进化呢？

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And certainly adult humans are not supposed to be drinking the mother's milk from a four-legged , furry animal.

当然成人人类不应该喝母乳从四条腿的，毛茸茸的动物。

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Until then, we may find four-legged sensors, large and small, sniffing away to protect us from a bird-borne epidemic.

到那时，我们就可以发现这些大大小小的四条腿传感器们吸出鸟类的疫病保护我们。

属类：英汉句库-www.hjenglish.com-

Fannie Poteet sat cross-legged on her Uncle John's front porch; her favorite rag doll clutched under one arm.

范妮.波蒂特翘着二郎腿坐在她约翰舅舅的前廊上，一只胳膊下夹着她最喜爱的布娃娃。

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For an official of his rank, this is a stiff-legged stoop, with fingers outstretched to mid-shin.

给他这种级别的官员鞠躬，腿要绷直，然后俯身将手指伸到小腿中部。

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Or a small cafe with long-legged sawhorse and with even the air at leisure?

还是一家摆着高脚木凳、连空气都闲散的小小咖啡馆？

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What I see a lot of times, more with ladies, is they'll be sitting cross-legged , driving with cruise control.

还有一次，我看见一个家伙双腿夹着一杯咖啡，一边在笔记本上打字，一边驾车行驶。

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Avoid these common mistakes and keep your four-legged friend happy, healthy, and well-behaved.

回避这些常见错误，那么你就能让你的“伙伴”快乐、健康、不捣乱。

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Hugging her knees, she stares anxiously at her father's guests, who sit cross-legged around a smoky kerosene lamp on the smooth mud-floor.

她抱着膝盖，担心地盯着父亲的客人，后者盘腿坐在光滑的泥地上，周围弥漫着煤油灯冒出的黑烟。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

She is thin, generally tall and long legged , and above all young.

她的身材应该清瘦苗条，通常是个高挑个，双腿修长，而青春年少则是首要条件。

属类：英汉句库-www.hjenglish.com-

She invited him in and he slouched in the wooden chair beside the low dresser and talked to her while she sat cross-legged on the bed.

她邀请他到她的房间，他懒洋洋地坐在矮梳妆台旁的木椅里，和盘腿坐在床上的她聊天。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Now just my wheelchair alone cost $5600, and without everyone's generosity, I might be paddling myself around cross-legged on a skateboard.

仅仅一个轮椅就得花掉5600美元，没有大家的慷慨解囊，我也许得把自己盘腿坐在滑板上了。

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Jun Kiln three-legged basin with studs

钧窑鼓丁三足洗

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

The other model traces our two-legged walking to earlier tree-climbing, a mode of locomotion that is used by all living apes.

另一种模式认为，我们两条腿走路的习惯源自早期的爬树动作，这种动作现在所有的猿类动物都有。

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Imagine the ancestors of birds as small, scaly, four-legged reptiles living in forest canopies, leaping from tree to tree.

鸟类的祖先很可能是一种具鳞的小型四足爬行动物，生活在森林的树冠上，经常从一棵树跳到另一棵树上。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Sitting cross-legged on the carpet, Rasul tells me he finds it impossible to believe that his daughter was a suicide bomber.

盘腿坐着，拉苏尔一直在沉思，他告诉我，他没法相信女儿是一个自杀式炸弹袭击者。

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The goal is to create four-legged , upright robots that can move to a light source without falling.

其目标是制造的四条腿并且能够直立行走的机器人能够感应光源运动而不会摔倒。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But family therapists say that, usually, four-legged diplomats need some help from the two-legged kind to succeed.

然而，家庭治疗师说，通常四条腿的动物若想当好外交官需要两条腿的人帮点忙。

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