alligators

He said: 'The wetlands are home to lots of wading or marsh birds, as well as numerous alligators.

他表示，这片湿地里生活着大量沼泽鸟（或涉水鸟），以及很多短吻鳄。

The sun rose slowly, I began to see the alligators move.

太阳徐徐上升，我看到鳄鱼开始动了。

And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

短吻鳄在这个三角洲里鱼儿丰富的河流中游荡蛇从柏树的枝头垂下，各种各样的鸟儿在枝头歌唱。

There's a saying that goes: "When you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that you were there to drain the swamp. "

有一个谚语：“当您的脖子即将进入鳄鱼的口中，您很难记得您是处于将要陷于沼泽的状况。”

So perhaps the question to ask, say some scientists, is not how birds got their feathers, but how alligators lost theirs.

因此，有科学家表示，研究者需要探讨的问题并非是鸟类如何获得羽毛，而应该是鳄鱼如何丧失羽毛。

Unlike alligators, which are far more numerous, each crocodile is considered important to preserving the species, he said.

他说，与数目多得多的短吻鳄不同，每只美洲鳄对保护该物种都是至关重要的。

American alligators are found in freshwater coastal wetlands across the southeastern United States, from Louisiana to the Carolinas.

在美国东南部淡水海岸的滨海湿地，从路易斯安那州到卡罗来那州，可以找到美洲鳄的踪迹。

The Everglades is one of the only places on Earth where freshwater alligators and saltwater crocodiles live in the same area.

大沼泽地国家公园是淡水鳄鱼和盐水鳄鱼生活在一起的地球上仅有的几个区域之一。

the redwoods seem to belong on those coastal hills, and the alligators seem to belong in those plains.

红衫林似乎就应摇曳在海岸山丘上，而北美鳄似乎就该呆在平原。

She flipped her bed over and found invisible alligators all over her room. "What's going on here? " she demanded.

她把床翻了过来，发现房间里到处都是看不见的鳄鱼。“这是怎么回事？”她问。

It's thought a usual to hear about alligators roaming around Florida, but this one was caught in Rhode Island.

在弗罗里达州看到鳄鱼到处漫游是很平常的事，但这一只却是在罗德岛被捕获的。

Crocodiles and alligators: Whatever some idiots tell you, crocs and gators cannot run faster than racehorses.

鳄鱼和短吻鳄：任凭一些白痴怎样说，鳄鱼和短吻鳄终究是跑不过赛马的。

MICHAEL: Maybe, ah, ah, you know they say there are alligators in the sewers.

哥哥迈克尔：也许，啊，啊，你知道吗，人们都说下水道里有鳄鱼。

We kept a vigilant eye out for alligators and for venomous snakes.

我们警惕地睁大眼睛，以防短吻鳄和毒蛇的出现。

They also cut out the lungs of alligators that had died on a Louisiana wildlife refuge and pumped air through the lungs.

他们还对一只死在路易斯安那野生动物避难所的美洲鳄进行了解剖，把空气从肺里抽了出来。

With the runt out of the way, there will be more food for the other two. Down below, the alligators watch this grizzly pageant eagerly.

当弱者不再碍手碍脚时，另两只幼鸟会有更多的食物。下面，短吻鳄们热切地观看这这出灰色的表演。

The team collected blood samples from American alligators after injecting them with a substance to stimulate their immune systems.

在注射一种物质刺激美国鳄鱼的免疫系统后，研究小组收集他们的血液样本。

The famous Everglades, a slow-moving sheet of water full of plants and alligators, cover much of the southern part of the state.

著名的佛罗里达大沼泽地是一片移动缓慢的水域，其中不乏各种植物和短嘴鳄，覆盖了南部大部分地区。

Lizards squirt blood from their eyes and alligators set up home on the golf courses of Florida.

眼睛喷血的晰蝎和以佛罗里达州高尔夫球场为家的鳄鱼。

I've had one boat captain grab my collar to keep me from falling into a canal replete with 10-foot alligators.

一个船长曾抓住我的衣领，才没有掉入满是10英尺长鳄鱼的运河里。