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

他每晚都会在这里拥抱，他想要伸长他的小子。

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

它们伸长自己的小子，直不停地嘘嘘嘘吹口哨，像是小队吹笛子的。

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

它让我们得以睹长子从短子祖先里伸长的中间阶段。

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。

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，许多其他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些。

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。

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，你有栏将你的房子和邻居的房子隔开，这是张德思礼夫人伸长子的照片。

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.

当它奔跑的时候，脊柱就像弹簧样收缩，驱动它的腿伸长，使得它步就能达到25英尺的距离。

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.

对他们来说， 长进行的特殊战斗形式是其子伸长的主要驱动力，而能够浏览更高的树木则是个附带好处。

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多具人类骨骼，其中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。

Seagrasses grow by extending a rhizome -- that is a subterranean stem that elongates at rates of about one centimeter to about five meters per year, and they branch and extend along the seafloor, forming large clones.

海草通过根茎的生长而生长——根茎是种地下茎，以每年约厘米至约五米的速度伸长，它们分枝并沿着海底延伸，形成大型克隆。