Remember how I told you your ideas are kind of like fireflies?
还记得我说过你的想法有点像萤火虫吗？
Oddly enough, you can catch your ideas with the very same device I used to catch fireflies when I was a boy.
奇怪的是，你可以用我小时候用来捉萤火虫的装置来捕捉你的想法。
You could look for fireflies now and report your findings, but chances are slim that any will still be present at this time of year.
你现在可以寻找荧火虫，报告你的发现，但在每年的这个时候还能看到它们机会是非常小的。
They took genes from fireflies and bioluminescent marine bacteria and modified them that can be easily added to other organisms to make them glow.
他们从萤火虫和海洋荧光细菌中提取基因，并对它们进行了修改，可以很容易地添加到其他生物体中，使它们发光。
Fireflies use their light for attracting mates.
萤火虫用它们的光来吸引配偶。
He saw fireflies flying and an idea came into his mind.
他看到萤火虫在飞，于是一个想法出现在他的脑海里。
He caught some fireflies in a cloth bag and hung it up as a lamp.
他抓了一些萤火虫放在一个布袋里，把它挂起来当灯。
Fireflies and some fish have the power to manufacture their own light, but the process seems to consume a large amount of energy.
萤火虫和某些鱼类可以用自己的能量自身产生光，但这个过程似乎会消耗大量的能量。
Fireflies give off flashes of light when they fly at night.
萤火虫夜间飞行时发出闪光。
Remember how I told you your ideas are kind of like fireflies? They flitter about.
还记得我告诉过你么，你的想法像一种萤火虫？他们翩翩起舞。
So many of them seek this refuge that the glowing tips of their cigarettes appear like fireflies.
由于寻求这种慰籍的人太多，他们烧红的烟头看起来就像萤火虫一样。
These are bioluminescent chromatophores, and they glow in the dark like fireflies.
这些是荧光的色素细胞，它们在黑暗中像萤火虫一样发光。
Each blinking pattern is an optical signal that helps fireflies find potential mates.
每一个闪烁模式都是帮助萤火虫发现潜在配偶的光信号。
Maybe it's sipping lemonade on the patio before work or catching fireflies with your kids after dinner.
也许你可以在工作前到露台上喝杯柠檬水，或者，在晚饭后陪孩子一起去抓萤火虫。
Fireflies and some fish (usually with the help of bacteria) have the power to manufacture their own light, but the process seems to consume a large amount of energy.
萤火虫和某些鱼类(一般在细菌的帮助下)可以用自己的能量自身产生光线，但这个过程会消耗大量的能量。
Like fireflies, they too rely on a cofactor, in this case calcium ions rather than magnesium.
例如萤火虫，它主要是依赖于镁离子这种辅助因子，而水母则依赖于钙离子。
I was looking at a rare beauty: statuesque with long, dark hair cascading like a curtain over her angular shoulders, and her eyes lit up like chocolate fireflies.
我正看到一个非常美丽景象：她就像是一个雕塑，长长的黑发像窗帘一样瀑布般地泻落在她瘦削的肩膀上，眼睛像是巧克力色的萤火虫一样明亮。
A new study has found that clouds "communicate" with each other, much like chirping crickets or flashing fireflies on a summer night.
最新研究发现，云朵之间的相互交流，更像是夏日夜晚鸣叫的蟋蟀或是闪光的萤火虫之间的交流。
Just a few more minutes of catching fireflies on a lazy summer evening. So what if that certain TV show was on?
要是再多一会儿，和孩子们在夏日慵懒的晚上一快捉萤火虫，即便那定时要收看的电视节目已经上映了又何妨？
Everyone knows how fireflies got their name, but many people don't know how the insects produce their signature glow.
每个人都知道萤火虫名字的由来，然而很多人却萤火虫是如何发出它们标志性的闪光的。
The sky had gone dark, and cozily lighted storefronts beckoned like fireflies.
天色已晚，临街店面慵懒的路灯像一只只萤火虫。
Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.
绿莹莹的萤火虫在空中闪出光亮，一会儿这里照亮一下，一会儿那里照亮一下幽木巨树的暗淡的树干。
Already the project has a few surprising results, like the fireflies that were spotted west of the Rockies, well outside their expected habitat.
项目已经取得了几个让人吃惊的成果，比如在落基山脉以西发现的荧火虫，其栖息范围远远超出了原来的预想。
Though they haven’t published their results yet, last year his team got a synthetic ribosome to self-assemble and produce luciferase, the protein that makes fireflies glow.
去年，丘奇的研究团队通过自组装获得了合成核糖体，并产生了荧光素酶，这种蛋白质可以使萤火虫发光。
Fireflies have dedicated light organs that are located under their abdomens.
在萤火虫腹部下面有专门发光的器官。
Fireflies sparkle in the gloom.
萤火虫在黑暗中闪闪发光。
Most fireflies are winged, which distinguishes them from other luminescent insects of the same family, commonly known as glowworms.
大多数萤火虫具有翅，有别于同科的其他发冷光的昆虫，比如一般被称作发光虫的昆虫。
Fireflies are familiar, but few realize that these insects are actually beetles, nocturnal members of the family Lampyridae.
萤火虫大家都熟悉，但鲜有人知道这些昆虫其实属于甲虫，萤科家族的夜猫子。
Though the spiders initially attacked both insects, those that went after the fireflies quickly learned to avoid the flashing LED.
尽管刚开始蜘蛛对两种生物都会进行攻击，但那些追捕萤火虫的很快学会了避免捕食发光led。
Fireflies are winged beetles and give off a green luminous glow from chemicals in their lower abdomen in a process called bioluminescence.
萤火虫是有翅膀的昆虫，会通过一种叫做生物体之发光的化学进程从腹部释放出一种绿色的夺目光芒。
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