这条银白色的痕迹是黏液。
Do you think of algae as gloopy green slime?
你觉得海藻像是粘稠的绿色黏液吗？
We won't know whether such "biosignatures" are an indication of slime or civilization.
我们将不会知道那样的“生命信号”所预示的究竟是一堆烂泥还是一种文明。
The pond was full of mud and green slime.
池子里满是淤泥和绿色的污水。
He swam down and retrieved his glasses from the muck and slime at the bottom of the pond.
他潜下水去，从池塘底部的烂泥污物中找回了眼镜。
The slime helps the snail slide along.
黏液有助于蜗牛滑行。
他们就是黏菌（slime molds）。
Eventually, acellular slime molds also make spores.
最终，非细胞黏菌也会产生孢子。
There's even a variety that subsists on the slime left by snails.
有一个金龟变种甚至靠蜗牛留下的粘液来生存。
Soon he had the slime up to his calves and water above his knees.
不久淤泥深到腿的一半，而水则过了膝头。
After four hours, the slime mold was feasting on both blocks of food.
四小时后，黏菌已经在尽情享用食物了。
Other studies have shown that the slime mold lineage is immensely old.
其他的研究显示黏菌家族相当古老。
Dictyostelium belongs to one of the two great branches of slime molds.
盘基网柄菌属于黏菌两个大型分支当中的一个。
Building networks sometimes requires tough decisions from slime molds.
建立网络有时需要黏菌做出艰难的决定。
He also speculates that slime could protect bacteria from high levels of toxic gas.
他同时猜测粘液能够保护细菌免受有毒气体的侵害。
Besides, we won't know whether such "biosignatures" are an indication of slime or civilization.
另外，我们将不会知道那样的“生命信号”所预示的究竟是一堆烂泥还是一种文明。
The Clownfish may look pretty with its bright orange and white stripes, but it’s covered in slime.
橙白色相间的条纹使得小丑鱼看起来相当漂亮，但它们的身体表面其实还覆盖着一层粘液。
Finding new species of slime molds will let scientists test these possibilities, Dr. Baldauf said.
新黏菌品种的发现将给科学家提供机会验证这些可能性，巴尔道夫博士说。
Worms, other deep-living organisms and sediment require oxygen that will not reach them through the slime.
海底的虫子以及其他的深海有机体、沉淀物都需要氧气，可惜现在氧气没法穿过那厚厚的粘稠物。
Its branch is known as the cellular slime molds, because its spore and stalk are made out of many cells.
这个分支叫做细胞黏菌(cellular slime molds)，因为其孢子和柄由许多细胞组成。
Despite their name, slime molds are not related to bread mold or the black mold that grows in damp houses.
尽管有着霉菌一样的名字，黏菌可跟面包的霉点或者长在阴暗潮湿的房子里的黑色霉菌没关系。
The traits that slime molds share in common, like making spores, may have first evolved as they came ashore.
黏菌的共同特征，像产生孢子，可能是在到达陆地后最先进化的。
If you removed those slime molds, the whole earth's ecosystems would be very different, "Dr." Stephenson said.
“如果除去那些黏菌，整个地球的生态系统将会完全变样，”斯蒂芬森博士说。
Humans and slime molds alike choose according to relative values, rather than trying to calculate absolute ones.
人类和黏菌一样，会依据相对价值进行选择，而不是试图计算绝对价值。
Slime molds are also present in huge Numbers: There may be thousands of individual slime molds in a pinch of soil.
黏菌也以庞大的数量出现：一小块土壤里可能会有成千上万的黏菌个体。
In the experiment, cities were represented by porridge oats that were linked to one another as the slime mould grew.
在这个实验中，当黏菌生长时，麦片代表的城市被一个接一个地连接起来。
While naturalists have known of slime molds for centuries, only now are scientists really starting to understand them.
自然学家发现黏菌的存在已有数百年了，但直到今天才真正开始了解它们。
Even if the slime molds die to form a stalk, many of their genes are passed on to the next generation through their kin.
即使黏菌为形成柄而死亡，它们的很多基因也会通过亲属传给下一代。
The slime mold grew a network of tentacles that was nearly identical to the actual highway system on the Iberian Peninsula.
黏菌长出的触角网络几乎和伊比利亚半岛上真实的公路系统一模一样。
应用推荐