tortoise

1 In our example on page 41, at every step the tortoise and Achilles get closer and closer to the two-foot mark.

2 Prosper carefully lifted the tortoise off the sand that Victor had poured into the bottom of the box; “She looks a bit parched.”

3 Once Victor had managed to fish the pedigreed cat out of a barrel full of stinking sardines and stowed her in a scratch-safe box, he had discovered the two tortoises.

4 A tortoise is different from a turtle.

陆龟与海龟有区别.

5 Uncas, standing ready to die before the Delaware, when an enemy warrior tears off his hunting shirt revealing the bright blue tortoise tattooed on Uncas’s breast.

6 Was the same pattern true of other animals—of the tortoises, say?

7 They had been walking in silence, for Pinmei was sulking—while she agreed about the tortoise, she was still angry at Yishan.

8 While Victor cooled the lumps on his head with ice and warmed his sick tortoise with an infrared light, he thought about nothing else except how to find that gang again.

9 The most well-known animal of the town is the giant tortoise.

这个镇上最有名的动物是巨型陆龟。

10 “I suppose an entire wall of great accomplishments would be a fine cage for another poor tortoise!”

11 He could have told her he was going to ask about the tortoise first!

12 Do you remember the story about between the hare and the tortoise?

你们还记得那个关于龟兔赛跑的故事 么 ?

13 Oh, to have a bright blue tortoise—something that proclaimed my uniqueness to the world.

14 You could find the sun-parched skulls of coyotes and empty tortoise shells and the rattles and shed skins of rattlesnakes.

15 “It proves nothing,” Victor grumbled as he squatted down next to the tortoises’ box.

16 When Dad was tucking me in that night, the night before the worst day, I asked if the world was a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

17 The bunny sees the tortoise walking very slowiy, so he wants to have a rest.

兔子见乌龟跑得太慢, 就想休息一下.

18 A tortoise was shelled with a green and orange gourd.

19 Tortoise: Oh, Miss Rabbit, never mind! Let's try again.

乌龟: 哦, 兔子小姐, 不要紧! 让我们再比一次.

20 The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including their giant tortoises, which, like the ancient diprotodons, show no fear of humans.

1 龟科

slider gopher terrapin cooter morocoy padloper painted turtle giant tortoise box turtle map turtle pond terrapin

2 淡水龟

turtle terrapin

3 迟钝的人

slowcoach

4 乌龟

horn cuckold cornuto

5 陆龟

turtle

6 慢吞吞的人

poke slug

7 众多种

mouse palm bat jack swallow swift monarch squirrel emerald jay orchid cactus grunt clam tit hummingbird viper heron chameleon wallaby gull gecko weaver mackerel cuckoo salamander boa thrush woodpecker lark moray kingfisher Bunting shrew tetra opossum grenadier martin cockatoo Wren goby plover sandpiper wrasse whitefly bromeliad hornbill euonymus tanager hagfish sculpin fritillary sunbird Loach crake ichneumon ovenbird scorpionfish hoverfly filefish cisticola white-eye cotinga mojarra madtom tonguefish cuckoo-shrike coral snake fruit bat diving beetle toothed whale tyrant flycatcher mole salamander poison arrow frog gall midge darkling beetle cardinal fish

8 龟

turtle testudinal testudinate loggerhead shrike