Nor did zoologists take seriously the hypothesis that the reptiles were pining for their aquatic homes and putting their heads in puddles to keep their spirits up .
还有一个动物学家不会当真的假设:这些爬行动物离不开它们的水之家,它们将头伸入水坑里是为了提提神。
If the farmers could have rid their lands of these puddles , they likely would have .
如果当时农民可以不要这些胶土地,他们就真的会这么干。
One showed students at their desks in a rural classroom , surrounded by muddy puddles on a dirt floor .
有一张展示的是在一个农村的教室里,一些学生正在上课,在教室的泥地面上还有一些泥水坑。
If you live where spring rains are common , so are puddles !
如果你生活的地方春雨绵绵,则必水坑处处。
The reason , revealed by satellite , is that the suburbs have more backyard ponds and puddles .
卫星揭露了其原因,郊区地区池塘和水洼较多。
Puddles , sometimes almost as wide as the track , flooded the way .
路上充斥着水坑,有时甚至和路面一样宽广。
In the early years of the 19th century , farmers in western pennsylvania kept their wagon wheels greased with puddles of bubbling muck that studded the countryside .
在19世纪早期,西部宾夕法尼亚州的农民都给自己的马车轮子抹上乡下随处可见的气泡肥料胶土。
In california community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water .
在美国加利福尼亚州,社区领导通过的一项条例规定,任何试图阻止孩子在水沟里嬉戏玩闹的行为都是违法的。
But it is wishful thinking to expect the problems between asia 's two biggest powers to be reduced to a few puddles of warm water .
但是若希望这两个亚洲大国冀此次会晤就解决之间存在的问题,那就是痴心妄想了。
There are women who live in perfect puddles of maternal love , who yet seem incapable of justice ; generous to a fault , perhaps , but seldom just .