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

小小身体，皮肤粗糙坚韧，光秃秃大圆脑袋活像一颗土豆。

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冰激凌表面变干或者结冻，所以冰激凌就不会有一层皮质一样上表层了。

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

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.

坚韧叶子含有很高纤维，有对其他动物有毒化学物质。

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

总比粗糙老农夫好，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质是该物质结构内在征之一，属于无脊椎动物进化过程某种第三纪周期，远非我们推断力所能及。

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.

他撕开最上面一层纸，看到了一件绿色皮质东西，但他还没有来得及好好地打开包装，这个包裹就古怪地颤抖了一下，先不说里面东西是什么，就厉声大叫起来——好像它是有嘴巴似。

" 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.

莱斯大学教授大卫·哈珀说：“火烈鸟腿上进化出了非常坚韧皮，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来，它们巨大、坚韧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.

然后它形成致密不规则组织，这些组织纤维更厚，排列不规则——任何可能向不同方向施加张力地方都能找到它，比如皮肤下面皮革真皮。

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, 但是小蜘蛛生长速度却快, 经过一段时间之后就要蜕皮, 每过几周时间身体就会长大一些。

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.

爬行动物蛋壳从坚韧到坚硬，但最终是恐龙家族里一个殊分支将自然外壳作用提升到一个新水平：鸟类。

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

对一只无助爬行类幼仔来说，囚禁在令人窒息蛋壳坚韧隔膜里，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，但在保罗粗犷外表下还是有着一颗温柔宁静心。

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

像这样解决方式可以让小型渔民在养家糊口同时最小化他们对海龟影响。

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

有着柔软毛皮、皮革般鼻子、圆圆耳朵和大眼睛，大部分人一靠近考拉心都软了起来。

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

有人说它们看起来像皮革，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一道保温层以保护中心脆弱蓓蕾。

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.

这种坚韧盔甲在它们捕猎时保护它们皮肤，任何试图逃跑猎物都会被棱皮龟食道里角化尖刺刺穿。