It was small and leathery looking, with a large, knobby, bald head exactly like a potato.

小小的身体，皮肤粗糙坚韧，光秃秃的大圆脑袋活像颗土豆。

The plastic prevents the surface of the ice cream from drying out and crystallizing once opened, so it never gets that leathery layer on top.

塑料袋能够防止开盖后的冰激凌表面变干或者结冻，所以冰激凌就不会有层皮质样的上表层了。

She's all leathery and wrinkled. I'm so jealous!

她的皮都有皱纹了，我真是忌妒！

The leathery leaves are very high in fiber and contain chemicals toxic to other animals.

坚韧的叶子含有很高的纤维，有对其他动物有毒的化学物质。

Well, it's better than leathery old farmer. All skin and bone, he was.

总比粗糙的老农夫好，全是皮包骨。

The leathery, undeteriorative, and almost indestructible quality was an inherent attribute of the thing's form of organization, and pertained to some paleogean cycle of invertebrate evolution utterly beyond our powers of speculation.

这种坚韧不破不可摧毁的特质是该物质结构的内在特，属于无脊椎动物进化过程的某种第三纪周期，远非我们的推断力所能。

He tore off the top layer of paper and glimpsed something green and leathery, but before he could unwrap it properly, the parcel gave a strange quiver, and whatever was inside it snapped loudly—as though it had jaws.

他撕开最上面的层纸，看到了件绿色皮质的东西，但他还没有好好地打开包装，这个包裹就古怪地颤抖了下，先不说里面的东西是什么，就厉声大叫起——好像它是有嘴巴似的。

" Flamingos have evolved very leathery skin on their legs so they can tolerate the salt water, " says David Harper, a professor at the University of Leicester.

莱斯特大学教授大卫·哈珀说：“火烈鸟的腿上进化出了非常坚韧的皮，所以它们能耐受咸水。”

Harry turned: no fewer than six or seven Thestrals were picking their way through the trees now, their great leathery wings folded tight to their bodies, their eyes gleaming through the darkness.

哈利转过身，看到至少有六七匹夜骐正小心翼翼地穿过树林走过，它们巨大、坚韧的翅膀紧紧收拢在身体两侧，眼睛在黑暗中微微闪烁。

Then it forms dense irregular tissue, whose fibers are thicker and arranged erratically — it's found wherever tension might be exerted in lots of different directions, like the leathery dermis underlying your skin.

然后它形成致密的不规则组织，这些组织的纤维更厚，排列不规则——任何可能向不同方向施加张力的地方都能找到它，比如皮肤下面的皮革真皮。

The perfect insect never grows bigger; but the little spiders grow so fast for a time that they have to throw off their leathery skins, and grow larger ones every few weeks.

昆虫成虫身体不会生长变大, 但是小蜘蛛的生长速度却快, 经过段时间后就要蜕皮, 每过几周时间身体就会长大些。

Reptile egg shells range from leathery to hard, but one special branch of the dinosaur family tree eventually took natural shell-ection to the next level: Birds.

爬行动物的蛋壳从坚韧到坚硬，但最终是恐龙家族里的个特殊分支将自然的外壳作用提升到个新的水平：鸟类。

For a helpless baby reptile imprisoned in a leathery membrane inside a choky shell, a process of hatching is a titanic struggle.

对只无助的爬行类幼仔说，囚禁在令人窒息的蛋壳的坚韧隔膜里，在孵化过程中需要拼尽全力挣扎。

Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior.

尽管父亲是个酒鬼，有时候还会虐待他，但在保罗粗犷的外表下还是有着颗温柔宁静的心。

Solutions like this should allow small-scale fishers to support their communities while minimizing their impact on our leathery ocean defenders.

像这样的解决方式可以让小型渔民在养家糊口的同时最小化他们对海龟的影响。

With its soft fur, leathery nose, rounded ears, and big eyes, most people seem to melt when near one.

有着柔软的毛皮、皮革般的鼻子、圆圆的耳朵和大眼睛，大部分的人靠近考拉心都软了起。

People say they look leathery, but it doesn't make any difference, it's just a waste of time.

有人说它们看起像皮革，但这没有任何区别。完全是在浪费时间。

Even though turkey bacon is kind of rubbery or leathery, and either too dry or too soggy.

尽管火鸡培根 Q 弹强韧干湿适中。

They close up their leathery leaves to form an insulating blanket that shields their vulnerable central bud.

它们合起革质叶片形成道保温层以保护中心脆弱的蓓蕾。

This leathery armor protects their skin while they hunt, and any captured prey that tries to escape is impaled on the keratinized spikes lining the leatherback's esophagus.

这种坚韧的盔甲在它们捕猎时保护它们的皮肤，任何试图逃跑的猎物都会被棱皮龟食道里的角化尖刺刺穿。