Toads are colonizing the whole place.

蟾蜍正移居到这整个地区。

Cane toads are seemingly innocuous enough.

甘蔗蟾蜍表面上绝对无害。

Its stores sell live turtles and toads.

它的商店里还销售活龟和蟾蜍。

Two toads have heavy loads on their backs.

两只蟾蜍背上背着沉重的货物。

Toads hide in cool, dark places during the day.

蟾蜍隐藏在凉爽，黑暗的地方在白天进行。

A group of toads were hopping about on the moor.

窗外的荒野上，一群蟾蜍正在四处跳跃。

Toads and frogs are amphibians that have protruding eyes.

蟾蜍和青蛙是眼睛凸出的两栖动物。

Toads sand frogs are amphibians that have protruding eyes.

蟾蜍和青蛙是眼睛凸出的两栖动物。

But how were cane toads gifted with those traits in the first place?

但是甘蔗蟾蜍究竟是如何获得那些特性的？

The first cloning experiments in the 1950s involved frogs and toads.

克隆实验开始于20世纪50年代，对象为青蛙和蟾蜍。

The stones are wet and mossy and in the crevices are black toads.

石头是湿的，上面生着青苔，石头缝里有黑色的蛤螟。

Toads may be able to detect imminent earthquakes, according toscientists.

科学家认为，蟾蜍可以预测到即将来临的地震。

The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone.

从新月到上弦月，月亮逐渐圆满起来，它们却忽然消失了。

When a full moon rose three days after the quake, a few toads risked a return.

地震三天之后的满月之夜，几只蟾蜍冒险回来了。

This type of tongue, also present in frogs and toads, is called an extensile tongue.

这种青蛙和蟾蜍也有的舌头叫做伸缩舌头。

Perhaps most surprisingly, at least in the case of toads, bigger body size is better.

也许很让人吃惊的是，身体越大越好，至少对蟾蜍是这样。

Early eradication methods included hitting the toads with golf clubs or cricket bats.

早期消灭它们的方法包括农高尔夫棒或者是板球球棍击打这些蟾蜍。

The two beetles, E. dejeani and E. circumscriptus, readily dine on toads, frogs and salamanders.

这两种甲虫是迪氏黄缘青步甲(e . dejeani)和环斑青步甲(e . circumscriptus)，它们以蟾蜍、青蛙和蝾螈为食。

The seismic shift continued to set off aftershocks almost every day, but Grant stayed to count her toads.

之后余震不断，几乎每天都有，Grant就继续数她的蟾蜍。

In the previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon.

过去的三年里，她观察到蟾蜍随月亮变圆而集结起来，越来越多。

No toads returned to the site until 10 days later, after the last of thesignificant aftershocks had finished.

直到地震10天后余震基本平息时，才有陆续返回的蟾蜍出现。

We have observed things like praying mantis just feasting on them, some spiders, toads. Some birds do eat them.

比如，我们观察过进食这些蝽卵的蟑螂，还有蜘蛛蟾蜍之类，有些鸟也吃。

This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges DE Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave.

这僧人懂些巫术，为人凶恶，死后葬在鲁昂附近波什·维尔地方的圣乔治修道院，他坟上竟生了些癞虾蟆。

She suggests exploring how toads respond to some of the changes she believes could have triggered their mass exodus.

她相信一定是某种环境改变引发了这种大规模离散，应当进一步研究蟾蜍对上述这些变化的反应。

But how should one weight the number of rare toads in one country against the independence of the judiciary in another?

但是应该如何衡量比较一个国家稀有蟾蜍的数量和另一个国家司法的独立性？

They would also like to see if other species such as goannas and bluetongue lizards could be taught not to eat cane toads.

他们还想知道其他的动物，比如巨蜥、蓝舌蜥是否也适用这种引导方法，不去捕食毒蛙。

They took 62 young quolls and fed half of them with small dead cane toads which were laced with nausea-inducing thiabendazole.

它们找来62只初生的小袋鼬，其中一半喂食紧系着致呕泻剂噻苯咪唑的死树蛙。