Hyaline cartilage is your most common type — it's kind of glassy looking and provides pliable support. It connects your ribs to your sternum and keeps the tip of your nose all perky.

透明软骨是你最见的类型——它看起来像玻璃一样，提供柔韧的支撑。它连接你的肋骨和胸骨，保持你的鼻尖挺拔。

So, Merri set out to find some answers using a database of CT scanned sternums from 105 different bird species, like the Red-capped lark, Leach's Storm petrel and the Southern cassowary.

因此，梅里开始利用105种不同鸟类的胸骨CT扫描数据库来寻找答案，这些鸟类包括红顶短趾百灵、白腰叉尾海燕和双垂鹤鸵。

I'm gonna place the palm of my hand on the breast on the center of the sternum, lower third, interlace my fingers and pull up.

我要把手掌放在胸骨中心的胸上，往下一，手指交叉向上拉。

Put pork rib cubes in an earthenware pot, then simmer them on slow heat for an hour in the boiled soup.

选肉厚的猪胸骨切块儿放入砂锅烧开后，小火一小时，将新鲜的藕刮皮洗净。

Find a gentle lift in the heart, just that kind of lift in the sternum that we often talk about.

在心脏处找到一个轻柔的提升，就是我谈论的胸骨的提升。

Birds with a deep sternal keel fly more slowly, those with long sternums are associated with running birds.

龙骨突深的鸟飞得更缓慢，而胸骨长的鸟则大多是走禽。

The resulting mass found in the victim's chest bones is also unique among other archaeological sites.

在受害者的胸骨中发现由此产生的肿块在其他考古遗址中也是独一无二的。

Spongy bone tissue is typically found in the heads of long bones and in the inner layer of flat bones like the sternum.

海绵状骨组织通存在于长骨的头部和胸骨等扁平骨骼的内层。

Bird sternums have a projection from the middle called the keel, and this is where the flight muscles are attached.

鸟的胸骨中间有一个隆起的部，叫做龙骨突，这是飞行肌肉附着的地方。

And so because the sternum is a complex element in three dimensions.

因为胸骨是一个复杂的维结构。

It sits at an angle, though, with one end pointing inferiorly toward the left hip, and the other toward the right shoulder. So most of its mass rests just a little bit left of the midsternal line.

然而，它以一个角度坐着，一端向下指向左臀部，另一端指向右肩。所以它的大部质量就在胸骨中线的左边一点。

Merri believes that the shape and structure of the sternum impacts how different species of birds breathe.

梅里认为，胸骨的形状和结构影响着不同鸟类的呼吸方式。

All other sorts of factors are possibly most likely contributing to the shape of the sternum, not just locomotion, things like birds that dance to attract a mate or how big their egg is relative to their body size.

所有其他的因素都有可能影响到胸骨的形状，而不仅仅是运动，比如鸟类通过跳舞来吸引配偶，或者它的蛋相对于它身体的大小。

The findings, published in BMC Biology, show that sternum size and shape has a direct impact on the way a bird flies.

这项研究结果发表在《BMC生物学》杂志上，研究表明胸骨的大小和形状对鸟的飞行方式有直接影响。

Merri says whether wing or foot-propelled, the sternums of these birds are similar in shape.

梅里表示，无论是用翅膀推进还是用脚推进，这些鸟的胸骨在形状上是相似的。

And it was sliced right down to my breastbone.

它被切成薄片直到我的胸骨。

I broke people's hearts the way the impact broke my sternum!

我伤了人的心，就像撞击伤了我的胸骨一样！

It also didn't have the large breastbone of modern birds.

它也没有现代鸟类那样的大型胸骨。

The tip struck the soft part of Czigo's abdomen just below the sternum, slammed upward with terrible force over the liver and through the diaphragm to crush the right ventricle of the man's heart.

尖端击中了 Czigo 胸骨下方柔软的腹部，以可怕的力量向上撞击肝脏并穿过隔膜，压碎了这个人心脏的右心室。

But Tom was most astonished to see how he fired himself off—snap! like the leap-frogs which you make out of a goose's breast-bone. Certainly he took the most wonderful shots, and backwards, too.

但汤姆最惊讶的是他是如何开火的——啪！就像用鹅胸骨做的蛙跳一样。当然，他拍了最精彩的镜头，也拍了倒退的镜头。