Reptiles live mainly on land but some live in water.

爬虫动主要生活在陆地上，而有些也在水中。

Snakes are different from the other reptiles because their bodies are very long and they have no legs.

蛇和其他爬虫动不同因为它们身体很长而且没有腿。

A relationship between a man and a reptile was something that can't be matched.

一段一个和一只爬虫类动系是一件无可比拟事。

Perhaps no other group of animals has caught mankind's imagination like reptiles.

大概没有其它种类动像爬虫类那样引发类想象力。

I noted the slight overlap of its sheet-iron plates, which resembled the scales covering the bodies of our big land reptiles.

我看到船身上钢板，彼此稍微鳞次着，很像地上大爬虫类动身上所有鳞甲。

There are five main groups of vertebrates, the fish, the amphibians, the reptiles, the birds and the mammals. Fish, amphibians and reptiles are known as cold blooded vertebrates.

脊椎动主要有五大类，鱼类，两栖动，爬虫动，鸟类和哺乳类动。鱼类，两栖动和爬虫动被认为是冷血类脊椎动。

Reptiles lay eggs with hard shells. Lizards, snakes and tortoises are reptiles which live mainly on land while crocodiles, alligators and turtles live in water.

爬行动会生蛋，蛋外壳坚硬。蜥蜴，蛇和龟都是生活在陆地上爬虫动，而鳄鱼，短吻鳄和龟则生活在水里。