Archaeopteryx shows no obvious features of gliders, such as a broad membrane connecting forelimbs and hind limbs.

始祖鸟并没有表现出明显的滑翔机的特征，比如有一层连接前肢和后肢的宽膜。

Otto Lilienthal soars above a crowd in one of his manned gliders in an 1893 photograph.

这是1893年的一张照片，奥特·李林塔尔乘着他的载人飞行器翱翔在人群上空。

The albatross is the king of the gliders.

信天翁是滑翔鸟类之王。

Currents of warm air keep the hang-gliders aloft.

悬挂式滑翔机借着暖气流在高空飞行。

Sugar gliders are nocturnal and native to Australia.

蜜袋鼯是夜行动物，原产澳洲。

After I returned home I gave my sugar gliders a meal.

后天我回家，我给我的蜜袋鼯一点饭。

The Wrights also returned to flying unpowered gliders off dunes.

怀特兄弟还是重新使用手动滑翔机，从沙丘上俯冲而下。

All my friends love the sugar gliders and think they are adorable.

我所有的朋友们都喜欢蜜袋鼯，认为它们非常可爱。

These studies led to designs for flying machines, including helicopters and gliders.

这些研究引发了对于飞行器的设计，包括直升飞机和滑翔机。

Ms Price said: 'Next to the big lizards, the sugar gliders are my favourite animals.

Price小姐说：“蜜袋鼯是我非常喜欢的动物，仅次于大蜥蜴。”

And they read about people who tried to fly on gliders - planes with wings, but no motors.

另外他们还阅读了关于那些试图驾驶滑翔机飞行的人的资料。

Some gliders can launch themselves with a retractable propeller turned by a small combustion engine.

有些滑翔机可以靠着由小型内燃机驱动的可伸缩螺旋桨来起飞。

Many researchers have long believed that gliders such as this were the ancestors of modern birds.

许多研究者一直相信像这样的滑翔者是现代鸟类的祖先。

Since 1935, gliders have gained in reputation as tools for aeronautical and meteorological research.

1935年以来，滑翔机作为航空和气象研究的工具获得好评。

Gliders equipped with radio and recording instruments have been flown into the core of thunderstorms.

装有无线电设备和记录仪的滑翔机曾飞进雷暴的中心。

In some gliders small electric motors also slide the batteries backwards and forwards to adjust the pitch.

在一些滑翔器里小型电力发动机也可以前后推动电池来调整倾斜角度。

He has developed 700 designs, written a dozen books on the subject, and created a museum of paper gliders.

他已经完成了700多种不同的设计，并就这一主题写了好几本书，还建立起一个纸飞机博物馆。

Adorable: Kayleigh Price, who runs Animal Experience, says the sugar gliders are a favourite with visitors.

惹人喜爱：动物体验中心的运营者，kayleigh Price，她说蜜袋鼯是游客的最爱之一。

What began with hang-gliders and microlights has moved on to full-sized gliders and now two-seater aircraft.

他们从悬挂式滑翔机和超轻型飞机起步，现在已经转向全尺寸滑翔机以及双座飞行器。

The US Office of Naval Research has asked the two teams for ideas for gliders that will never need a battery change.

美国海军研究办公室要求这两个研究小组提供一些不需要更换电池的水下滑行机器人设计方案。

Activities ranged from 37 formal sessions to "walk around" poster sessions to social events with jet skis and hang gliders.

这次活动包括37次正式会议，“循回”海报招贴会议，以及乘坐水上摩托艇和悬挂式滑翔机等社交活动。

Fantastic flights have also been made with gliders, but these use nature's rising air currents rather than human power.

飞行的幻想当然还可以靠滑翔机来满足，不过滑翔机用天然的上升气流，而不用人的体力。

Sea gliders were conceived in the 1980s by Douglas Webb, a former researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

海洋滑翔器的构想最初由伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的前研究员道格拉斯•韦伯在上世纪80年代提出的。

I could see many beautiful sailing boats of different colours in the sea, and a lot of kites and some gliders in the sky.

大海上有很多漂亮的各种各样颜色的帆船，天空中有很多的风筝，还有一些滑翔机。

In the wild they exist on a diet of insects and sweet tree SAP, however, the Price's gliders eat honey, fruit and baby food.

在野生条件下，它们以昆虫、甜树汁为食，而Price家的蜜袋鼯们吃的是蜂蜜、水果和婴儿食品。

Sea gliders move slowly, at around 1kph, tracing a saw-tooth pattern through the water as they constantly ascend and descend.

海洋滑翔器移动较慢，大概每小时航行1公里，当它们持续的上浮和下沉时，轨迹是一个锯齿形的图案。

Baleen whales have been tracked by autonomous gliders before, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts.

马萨诸塞州的Woods Hole Oceanographic研究的研究员们以前是用自主滑翔器来跟踪须鲸。

Only later might their arms have evolved into wings they could push up and down, transforming them from gliders to true powered fliers.

尔后，前肢进化成可以上下拍动的翅膀，于是它们又从滑翔者转型成为真正的飞行家。