1.Perhaps no other group of animals has caught mankind's imagination like reptiles.

大概没有其它种类的动物像爬虫类那样引发人类的想象力。

2.That same year, Cope showed Marsh his reconstruction of a new marine reptile called Elasmosaurus.

同年，柯普向马许展示了他重组出来的新海洋爬虫类，薄片龙。

3.A relationship between a man and a reptile was something that can't be matched.

一段一个男人和一只爬虫类动物的关系是一件无可比拟的事。

4.It's your chance to see these large reptiles up close and personal, including these extremely rare white alligators.

这是个近距离亲眼观察这些大型爬虫类的好机会，还能见到极为罕见的白鳄鱼。

5.So it looked like this ancient turtle didn't belong in the parareptile group.

看来这只古龟不属于副爬虫类。机翻

6.I noted the slight overlap of its sheet-iron plates, which resembled the scales covering the bodies of our big land reptiles.

我看到船身上的钢板，彼此稍微的鳞次着，很像地上大爬虫类动物身上所有的鳞甲。

7.It's part of what we call the reptilian core of the brain, associated with wanting, with motivation, with focus and with craving.

腹侧背盖区也是被我们称作爬虫类脑核的部分。它关系到欲求、动机、专注和渴望。

8.Though not nearly as large as these mighty reptiles, the lowly chameleon nonetheless has amazed countless generations with its special talents and skills.

虽然和这些巨大的爬虫类在体型上相去甚远，低姿态的变色龙仍然以牠特殊的才能和无数个世代的人感到惊异。

9.These reptilian aliens are a hybrid with humans, and Icke says that all royals have this form, as do many powerful business people and politicians.

这些爬虫类外星人是人类的混血儿， 艾克说所有皇室成员都有这种形式，许多有权势的商人和政治家也是如此。机翻

10.A perennial theme, reptiles have been featured over the past ten years in box-office hits and bombs alike as dinosaurs (Jurassic Park and The Lost World), crocodiles, and snakes (Anaconda).

大家对爬虫类这个主题的兴一直没有断过，过去10年来以爬虫类为主角拍成的卖座电影和票房极差的电影包括有恐龙的(《侏罗纪公园》和《失落的世界》)、鳄鱼和蛇类的(《大蟒蛇之神出鬼没》)。

11.Among the several subclasses (or " orders" in biology) of reptiles are snakes and lizards, turtles and tortoises, crocodiles and alligators, and the tuatara, a marine lizard in New Zealand.

在几个亚纲(或生物学的“目”)的爬虫类中，有蛇和蜥蜴、乌龟和陆龟、鳄鱼和短吻鳄以及虫蜥蜴——一种现存于新西兰的海蜥蜴。

12.The above inventory of natural selection specializations would be remarkable enough, but what really separates the chameleon from its fellow reptiles is the fact that its scales contain the ability to change color.

上列在物竞天择下发展而成的种种特长实在是了不起，但真正使变色龙不同于其它爬虫类的是它的鳞片拥有变色的能力。

13.90 percent of the reptiles on this island, 37 percent of the plant species exist here and nowhere else on earth, and that includes this species of dragon's blood tree, which actually bleeds this red resin.

这个岛屿有90%的爬虫类，37%的植物种类这里独有，包括这些龙血树，这些树会流出红色的树脂。