Do you think of algae as gloopy green slime?
你觉得海藻像是粘稠的绿色黏液吗？
It was like coming out of slime on to rock—we were worried but not soiled.
这就像走出烂泥地，来到了石岩上——我们还会忧虑，但已不怕被弄脏。
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。
A walking stick dipped in the glowing slime of a jellyfish, he observed, "will light the way like a torch".
手仗放入这些水母做成的黏液中进行浸泡，他观察到这样就可以“像手电筒一样照亮道路”。
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 layer consists of one aerobic and one anaerobic sublayer.
粘膜层由好气分层和厌气分层所组成。
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。
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。
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。
Again and again, the bacterial colonies oozed slime in response to ammonia.
反复数次，作为对氨的回应，细菌菌落总是会产生渗出粘液。
Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered this slime.
冉阿让感到沟道在脚下陷落了，他踏进了泥浆。
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。
Nevertheless it was like coming out of slime on to rock — we were worried but not soiled.
不过，这就像走出烂泥地，来到了石岩上- - -我们还会担心，但已不怕弄脏。
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。
But then an article on the Guardian's News Blog seemed to pour cold green slime over the whole story.
但是随后卫报新闻博客上的一篇文章似乎对这件事破冷水。
Slime molds then devour many of the bacteria, releasing their nutrients for other organisms to grow on.
黏菌随后会吞食掉许多细菌，释放出他们的营养物质供其他有机体生长。
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。
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。
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。
Researchers long thought that it was just another component of the extracellular slime that surrounds all cells.
研究人员长期认为它是另一种粘液细胞外的组成部分来包裹着粘液细胞。
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。
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