English Dictionary

While canoeing through the marsh, I was thrilled to see a chicken turtle slip into the water, its unusually long striped neck and net-like carapace flashing in the sunlight.

沼をカヌーで進んでいると、首の長い淡水カメ（Deirochelys reticularia）が水に滑り込むのを見て感動し、その非常に長い縞の入った首と網目模様の甲羅が陽光にきらめいていた。