Leonard, you got one on your tail. That's all right, my tail's prehensile- I'll swat him off.

Leonard有个敌人在你背后。没事，我脑后长眼着呢，我会干掉他。

With long limbs and a prehensile tail that can grip like a hand, they're built for climbing.

修长四肢加上灵如手卷尾，他们就是为攀爬而生。

Her prehensile tail acts like a fifth limb, so she's as agile as a monkey clambering around in a tree.

她尾巴可以抓握物体，就像第五只手，让她如林中穿梭猴子一般敏捷灵。

They looked kind of like chameleons, with grasping hands and feet, and long prehensile tails.

它们看起来有点像变色龙，有着抓握手和脚，以及长长卷尾。

Angela likely meant an opposable thumb, not a prehensile thumb.

安吉拉很可指是对手指，而不是卷曲手指。

Prehensile means capable of grasping or holding.

prehensile意思是够抓握或握住。

Does that mean kangaroos and their powerful tails, or monkeys with prehensile tails are, functionally speaking, 5-limbed animals?

这是否意味着袋鼠及其强有力尾巴，或拥有抓握尾巴猴子，从功上讲， 实际上是五肢动物呢？

So a monkey's tail is prehensile because it can be used to hang on to things.

所以猴子尾巴是prehensile，因为它可以用来抓握东西。

So an opposable thumb is part of a prehensile hand.

所以对掌拇指是灵巧手一部分。

It's a prehensile tail, a grasping appendage that helps the animals navigate the tall and treacherous canopy in search of fruits and leaves.

这是一根抓握尾巴，一种抓握附属物，帮助动物在高而树冠中穿行，寻找水果和树叶。

Not standing on two legs, not the prehensile thumb, just the ability to imagine possible futures.

不是站立双腿，不是灵巧拇指，只是想象可未来力。

The feet and tail of the chameleon are also special. Both are prehensile; that is, they are both perfectly adapted to their sylvan environment.

变色龙脚和尾巴也很特别，二者皆适于抓握；也就是说，二者皆极为适合森林环境。

But considering prehensile tails evolved twice in monkeys in the Americas, the vine theory of appendage evolution is the easier explanation to latch onto.

但考虑到美洲猴子进化出了两次可抓握尾巴，藤蔓理论是附肢进化一个更容易接受解释。

Some kinds, like Megalancosaurus, even had prehensile tails, with a claw-like hook on the end that helped them hold on to branches.

有些种类，例如巨龙，甚至有可以抓握尾巴，末端有一个爪状钩子， 可以帮助它们抓住树枝。

Prehensile tails take a lot of extra energy to operate, so it's possible that they just aren't useful enough to those monkeys to be worth having.

可抓握尾巴需要消耗量额外量，所以它们对那些猴子来说可并不够有用，不值得拥有。

Prehensile tails take a lot of extra energy to operate, so it’s possible that they just aren’t useful enough to those monkeys to be worth having.

维持卷缠尾需要很多量，所以可不够实用而不值得拥有。

The extremity of the tail in some American monkeys has been converted into a wonderfully perfect prehensile organ, and serves as a fifth hand.

一些美国猴子尾巴末端已经变成了一个非常完美抓握器官， 并作为第五只手。

His hands were small and prehensile, with fingers knotted like a cord; and they were continually flickering in front of him in violent and expressive pantomime.

他手小而有力， 手指像绳子一样打结。 它们不断地在他面前闪烁， 表现出强烈而富有表现力哑剧。

They graze on underwater plants like sea grasses and algae for up to eight hours a day, grabbing the plants and pulling them into their mouth with their prehensile upper lip.

它们以海草和海藻类水下植物为食，每天进食长达八小时，它们会抓住这些植物，并用可以缠绕上唇将其拉进嘴里。

We shall, also, presently see that the tail is a highly useful prehensile organ to some of the species; and its use would be much influence by its length.

不久我们还将看到， 尾巴对于某些物种来说是一种非常有用抓握器官； 它使用会受到它长度很影响。