The E. coli have hair-like extensions, called pili, that grab onto the intestinal cells.

大肠杆菌有被称为“菌毛”的毛状突起，这种突起能够紧紧抓住肠道细胞。

This description is helpful because it turns out that a growth with a more villous growth pattern is more likely to become malignant, and therefore needs more frequent monitoring if it isn't surgically removed.

这种分类十分实用，因为呈绒毛状生长的息肉恶变可能更大，因此，绒毛状息肉若不行手术切除，则需严密监视。

Well, in the 1990s, around the same time as a certain classic film showed us scaly, non-feathered dinosaurs, the first dinosaur fossils with feather-like structures were discovered.

在 20 世纪 90 年代，一部经典电影向我展示了有鳞片、无羽毛的恐龙，大约就在同一时间，第一批具有类似羽毛状结构的恐龙化石被发现了。

The " shell" of an atom isn't some hard shiny casing, as illustrations sometimes encourage us to suppose, but simply the outermost of these fuzzy electron clouds.

原子的壳并不是某种坚硬而光滑的外皮，就像许多插图有时候怂恿我去想像的那样，而只是这种绒毛状的电子云的最外层。

Air plants do not have roots. They depend on specialized cells – called trichomes – to permit their leaves to take in water and nutrients.

气生植没有根。它一种叫做毛状体的特殊细胞来让叶子吸收水分和营养。

This long white plume has grown from the white hairy calyx which we found outside each tiny yellow flower.

这些长长的白色绒毛就是从黄色小花外面的白色毛状花萼中生长而出。

Glittering wood-moss, a moss species with red stems and feathery leaves, shimmered on the forest floor.

木苔在林间的地上闪闪发光，它是一种有着红色的茎和羽毛状叶子的苔藓。

So it's referring to those feathery tufts that we're seeing on these animals.

所以它指的是我在这些动身上看到的那些羽毛状的簇绒。

Their vibrant feather-like appendages gracefully sway with their subtle movements.

它那充满活力的羽毛状附肢随着细微的动作优雅地摇曳。

Amphibians with cylindrical bodies, short legs, and feathery external gills.

身体呈圆柱形，短腿，长有羽毛状外鳃的两栖动。

At one end, next the rhubarb, grew feathery asparagus, with red berries.

在一端，在大黄旁边， 长出了羽毛状的芦笋， 还有红色的浆果。

By the time the sapling is five or six hundred years old this spiry, feathery, juvenile habit merges into the firm, rounded dome form of middle age, which in turn takes on the eccentric picturesqueness of old age.

等到树苗长到五六百年时，这种尖尖的、羽毛状的幼年习性融入了中年时坚固、圆润的圆顶形状，而后者又呈现出老年时的古怪风景。

They overhung the archway, thrust themselves between the bars of the great gate with a sweet welcome to passers-by, and lined the avenue, winding through lemon trees and feathery palms up to the villa on the hill.

他悬在拱门上，在大门的栅栏之间向路人致以亲切的欢迎，然后在大道两旁，蜿蜒穿过柠檬树和羽毛状的棕榈树，一直到山上的别墅。

Because we know what the feathers of living birds look like, modern technology combined with the exceedingly rare fossils with preserved remains of fuzzy feathers give us a glimpse of the real colors of extinct dinosaurs.

因为我知道活鸟的羽毛长什么样，现代科技结合保存有绒毛状羽毛的极其罕见的化石，让我得以一窥已灭绝恐龙的真实颜色。

Zoom in and you'll find a smaller group of theropods called the coelurosaurs Every single lineage in this group has some kind of evidence of a feathery body covering, whether it was fuzz or full-on feathers.

放大你会发现一小群叫做虚骨龙的兽脚类动， 这个群体中的每一个谱系都有某种羽毛状身体覆盖的证据，无论是绒毛还是全长羽毛。

Some sea cucumbers have feathery tentacles flowing from their mouths, some are puffed like bloated balloons, and others simply look like Headless Chicken Monsters— the actual name given to a rare deep-sea species.

有些海参的嘴里长着羽毛状的触须，有些像膨胀的气球一样鼓起来， 还有一些看起来就像无头鸡怪——这是一种稀有的深海种的真实名称。

But while the earth has slumbered, all the air has been alive with feathery flakes descending, as if some northern Ceres reigned, showering her silvery grain over all the fields.

但是，当地球处于沉睡状态时，所有的空气都充满了活力， 羽毛状的薄片从天而降，仿佛某个北方的谷神星在统治着，将她银色的谷洒在所有的田野上。

When in spring the first feathery leaves appear and the gaunt grayness is misted with green, I draw a secret breath of relief, as though a danger were now over.

春天，当第一片羽毛状的叶子出现，憔悴的灰色被绿色蒙上一层薄雾时，我暗自松了一口气，仿佛危险已经过去了。

They start slow, but soon the combination of the  bird's aerodynamic body, swept back wing shape, and powerful muscles work together to  turn this bird into a feathery missile.

它起步缓慢，但很快，鸟的空气动力学身体、后掠翼形状和强大的肌肉共同作用，将这只鸟变成了羽毛状的导弹。

He grew familiar with the outline of Table Mountain, and the fleecy 'Devil's Table-Cloth' which used to settle on its top when the wind was south-east.

他逐渐熟悉了桌山的轮廓，以及当吹东南风时，羊毛状的“魔鬼桌布”曾经落在山顶上。