Well, if I had been even an orthodox foreign servant, I would have had to obtain clearance from my employing department, even if I had written a book on lepidoptera.

好吧，如果我是一名正统的外国公务员，即使我写了一本关于鳞翅目的书，我也必须获得我的用人部门的许可。

The seal seemed anything but " pinnipedestrian" about the encounter and maybe the butterfly wanted the seal to " Lepidoptera" but one animal might have wanted to " seal" the friendship, the other was kind of " flighty" .

看似海豹对这次相遇感到很“鳍怪”，也许蝴蝶想让海豹飞翔，但是看似其中一只更想封存这段友谊，而另一只又太高冷了。

The insects in Madeira which are not ground-feeders, and which, as certain flower-feeding coleoptera and lepidoptera, must habitually use their wings to gain their subsistence, have, as Mr. Wollaston suspects, their wings not at all reduced, but even enlarged.

马德拉的昆虫不是地面食性动物， 而且像某些以花为食的鞘翅目和鳞翅目昆虫，它们必须习惯性地使用它们的翅膀来维持生计， 正如沃拉斯顿先生所怀疑的那样， 它们的翅膀根本没有减少， 但甚至扩大。