And the hind leg has what we call a double-trochleated astragalus.

其后腿上有我们称作双滑轮结构的距。

Follow some of those long bones to your foot or hand, and you'll hit a cube-shaped short bone, like your foot's talus and cuboid, or your wrist's lacunate or scaphoid.

沿着这些长中的一些延伸到你的脚或手，你会碰到一个立方体形状的短头，比如你脚的距和长方体，或者你手腕的裂隙或舟。

And this is an astragalus or an ankle bone, which has a both an upper and lower curved surface which allows the spring in the step.

这就是一块距或者说踝，其表面同时有向上和向下的弯曲，使之在走路时有弹性。

The other species is the mountain live-oak, or goldcup oak (Quercus chrysolepis), a sturdy mountaineer of a tree, growing mostly on the earthquake taluses and benches of the sunny north wall of the Valley.

另一种是山地橡树或金杯橡树 (Quercus chrysolepis)， 一种强壮的登山树， 主要生长在山谷阳光充足的北壁的地震距和长凳上。

The entire trunk seems to have been honeycombed, judging by the size of the talus of gnawed chips like sawdust piled up around its base.

整个树干似乎是蜂窝状的， 从根部积的锯末等被啃过的碎屑的距的大小来看。

It even had a special ankle bone, called an astragalus, shaped kind of like a pulley.

它甚至拥有一种特殊的踝，称为距，形状有点像滑轮。

The first severe shocks were soon over, and eager to examine the new-born talus I ran up the Valley in the moonlight and climbed upon it before the huge blocks, after their fiery flight, had come to complete rest.

最初的剧烈震动很快就过去了，急于检查新生的距，我在月光下跑上山谷，在巨大的石块经过火热的飞行后完全静止之前爬上了它。

When he got to the foot of the talus he raised himself slowly and looked for the antelope.

当他到达距脚下时， 他慢慢地站起来寻找羚羊。

Some very early cetaceans have this ankle bone, too, which tells us that cetaceans evolved from artiodactyls.

一些非常早期的鲸目动物也有这种距，这告诉我们鲸目动物是从偶蹄目动物进化而来的。