The flying dragon COULD get them there, but the rat was afraid of heights!

龙会飞，可以带他们过河，但老鼠恐高！

His horse-drawn carriage even had flying dragons painted on it.

他的马车上还画着飞龙。

People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

人们称它们为翼手龙：但这只是因为他们羞于称它们为飞龙，因为他们长期以来一直否认飞龙可能存在。

They know that there are elephants; they know that there have been flying dragons; and the wiser they are, the less inclined they will be to say positively that there are no water-babies.

他们知道有大象；他们知道有过飞龙；他们越聪明，就越不愿意肯定地说没有水宝宝。

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world?

直到最近 25 年，博学之士不也认为飞龙是不可能的怪物吗？难道我们现在不知道在世界各地发现了数百种它们的化石吗？