He would cuddle right here every night and he would like reach his little neck up.

晚都会在这里拥抱，想要伸长的小脖子。

They thrust their little necks out and kept up a musical whistling, like a tiny troupe of pipers.

它们伸长自己的小脖子，一直不停地嘘嘘嘘吹口哨，像是一小队吹笛子的。

It lets us glimpse an intermediate stage in the elongation of the giraffid neck from shorter-necked ancestors.

它让我们得以一睹长颈鹿脖子从短脖子祖先那里伸长的中间阶段。

Her white-gold ring shattered apart, lengthening into the six-foot-tall trident.

她的白金戒指碎裂， 伸长成六英尺高的三叉戟。

Also, the carpals in their wrists were elongate and made a greater contribution to the length of the wing.

此外，它们手腕处的腕骨伸长，对翅膀的长度贡献更大。

He said that a woodpecker's tongue can extend more than three times the length of its beak.

说，啄木鸟的舌头可以伸长到喙的三倍。

The new leg lengthens, filling out the missing segments between the amputation site and the toes.

新的腿伸长了，填补了截肢部位和脚趾之间缺失的部分。

In fact, many other ambush hunters also have vertically elongated pupils — but mainly those whose eyes are located closer to the ground.

事实上，许其的伏击猎者也有垂直伸长的瞳孔——但主要是眼睛离地面更近的那些。

He watched Cinderpaw stand at the edge of the stream and crane her neck to peer into the black water.

看着炭爪站在溪边，伸长脖子凝视黑色的河水。

She was looking more and more like a beaver, as her teeth elongated, past her bottom lip, towards her chin.

她看起来越来越像一只海狸，她的牙齿伸长， 越过她的下唇，滑向她的下巴。

While all grasses grow via the same cell elongation process, an unkempt lawn won’t end up towering over your house like a bamboo grove would.

虽然所有的草都通过相同的细胞伸长过程生长，但蓬乱的草坪不会像竹林那样最终高耸在你的房子上。

In your backyard you have a fence that separates your house from your neighbour's house, and here is a picture of Mrs. Dursley craning her neck.

在你的后院，你有一道栅栏将你的房子和邻居的房子隔开，这是一张德思礼夫人伸长脖子的照片。

As it runs, the cheetah's spine recoils like a spring, propelling its legs out and allowing it to cover up to 25 feet in a single stride.

当它奔跑的时，就像弹簧一样收缩，驱动它的腿伸长，使得它一步就能达到25英尺的距离。

This lengthening and shrinking along the length of the crystal lattice, called the  piezoelectric effect, causes the leg of this tuning fork to move back and forth.

这种沿着晶格长度的伸长和收缩称为压电效应，它导致音叉的腿来回移动。

See, in 1996, two researchers argued that  Lamarck, Darwin, and generations of biologists since had totally overlooked the main driver  behind the elongation of the giraffe's neck.

1996 年， 两名研究人员认为，拉马克、达尔文以及此后的几代生物学家完全忽视了长颈鹿脖子伸长背后的主要驱动因素。

To them, the particular form of combat that giraffes engaged in was the primary driver behind the elongation of their neck, with the ability to browse on higher trees being a side-benefit.

对们来说， 长颈鹿进行的特殊战斗形式是其脖子伸长的主要驱动力，而能够浏览更高的树木则是一个附带好处。

Over 7,000 human skeletons were discovered in the labyrinth, and some of the skulls have strange elongations and shapes, which have fueled speculation about the people who built and used this place.

迷宫中发现了7000具人类骨骼，其中一些头骨有奇怪的伸长和形状， 引发了人们对建造和使用这里的人的猜测。

According to an article published in the journal Science in 2016, researchers believe that sunflowers demonstrate this type of heliotropism due to their stems elongating at different rates at different times of day.

根据 2016 年发表在《科学》杂志上的一篇文章，研究人员认为，向日葵表现出这种向日葵是因为它们的茎在一天中的不同时间以不同的速度伸长。

The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.

这只猫没有被注意到，已经用低沉的爪子从 Zeena 的座位上爬到桌子上，并且正悄悄地伸长它的身体朝着放在 Ethan 和 Mattie 之间的牛奶罐的方向。

He could only hammer on the door and hear the dead woman coming for him, bloated belly, dry hair, outstretched hands — something that had lain slain in that tub for perhaps years, embalmed there in magic.

只能捶打着门，听着死去的女人朝走来，肿胀的腹部、干枯的头发、伸长的双手——浴缸里遭杀害也许经年的尸体，奇迹似的好好保存在那里。