1·The ability of real geckos to climb walls and walk across ceilings has long fascinated people.
真正的壁虎有攀爬墙壁和在天花板行走的能力，人们对此一直都很着迷。
2·Most surprising, some lizards, such as geckos and skinks, lap up nectar and pollen and then transport the stuff on their faces and feet as they forage onward.
更令人惊讶的是，某些蜥蜴，譬如喜爱甜食花蜜和花粉的壁虎和石龙子，它们在进食过程中其面部和足部的花粉也会被传播出去。
3·To create nonsticky adhesive materials, geckos showed the way to van der Waals force, the sum total of attracting or repelling forces between molecules.
为了创造出非粘性的黏合材料，壁虎展示了范德华力的方式，分子间吸合或排斥的全部总和。
4·New lizards found in the decade 1998 to 2008 include 17 species of skinks 12 geckos 5 forest dragons and 3 monitor lizards.
在1998年至2008年十年中还发现了新的蜥蜴，包括17种石龙子，12种壁虎，5种森林龙和3种巨蜥。
5·To learn how to climb walls, Stanford roboticist Mark Cutkosky turned to the best wall climbers around: geckos.
为了学习怎样爬墙，斯坦福大学的机器人专家马克·库特考斯基开始注意最优秀的攀爬能手：壁虎。