At once like an eel she slid between Starkey's legs into the water.
她像条鳗鱼似的，立刻从斯塔奇两腿之间滑入水中。
As soon as he touched the knocker, it became an eel and wiggled away into the darkness.
他一碰到门环，它就变成了一条鳗鱼，在黑暗中扭动着消失了。
Many people enjoy eating fried eel, but few stop to think about the life of this unique fish.
很多人喜欢吃炸鳗鱼，但很少有人会停下来想想这种独特鱼类的生活习性。
Instead of a dead donkey, he saw a very much alive Marionette, wriggling and squirming like an eel.
他看到的不是一头死驴，而是一个活生生的木偶，那木偶和一条鳗鱼一样扭动着。
Kyoto people say that the women in their city have such beautiful skin because they eat plenty of eel.
京都人说他们城市里的女人有这么无暇的皮肤是因为她们吃了很多鳗鱼。
One day, I saw a beautiful piece of eel just sitting there, unpriced, and I asked the fisherman for it.
有一天，我看到一条很漂亮的鳗鱼就摆在那儿，没有标价，我就向渔夫要了它。
Those European and North American young then return to their respective coasts to begin the unusual life cycle of the eel anew.
那些欧洲和北美洲的幼鱼随后回到它们各自的海岸，重新开始鳗鱼独特的生命周期。
The electric eel can reach up to 9 feet long and can weigh up to 22 kg.
这种电鳗可以长到9英尺长，重达22公斤。
The bigger the eel, the greater the danger.
鳗鱼越大越危险。
I bought eel this way for a couple of weeks.
我用这种方式买了好几星期的鳗鱼。
A weeks-old eel larva in a petri dish glows under blue light.
培养皿中一周大的鳗鱼苗在蓝色灯光下发光。
It's true for many mainland farms, especially those raising eel.
内地有些养殖场的确是这样，尤其是那些养鳗鱼的地方。
Metal plates at the ends of the tank enabled the eel to power the bulbs.
水槽一端的金属片能够收集电鳗所发的电，从而给灯泡供电。
I've observed them doing this at sacred Maori eel-feeding sites in New Zealand.
在新西兰，我曾经在专用的毛利人鳗鱼喂养点看到它们取食。
I wasn't surprised to see that the eel had been marked up to an astonishing price.
我一点也不奇怪鳗鱼被标到了令人吃惊的价格。
Industrial eel farms buy baby eels and raise them for gourmands in Japan and elsewhere.
工业鳗鱼养殖场会买来小鳗鱼，饲养它们以作为日本和其他地方的美食。
The next day at the restaurant, I made the eel into tempura and sushi, which sold really well.
第二天，在我的餐馆里，我用鳗鱼做了tempura和寿司，卖得非常好。
The fisherman laughed and ended up giving me the 20 or 30 kilos of eel for just a few dollars.
这个渔民笑了起来，最终给了我二三十公斤的鳗鱼而只要了我几美元。
Most all seafood is high in protein and low in fat, with the exception of a few, such as the eel.
大多数的海鲜产品都含有高蛋白质和低脂肪的特点，但是也有例外，如鳗鱼等。
When the eel locates its prey, it opens a series of cellular gates through which the ions can flow.
当电鳗确定了猎物的位置，就会打开一系列的细胞门，离子就可以流过这些细胞门。
Eel is almost always eaten in eel-only restaurants, because of the difficulty in cleaning and cooking the fish.
人们几乎总是在鳗鱼专营餐馆吃鳗鱼，因为清洗烹饪这种鱼很困难。
In DECEMBER 2007, a Japanese aquarium hooked up the lights on a Christmas tree to a tank containing an electric eel.
2007年12月，日本一家水族馆把圣诞树上的灯泡与装有电鳗的水箱连接了起来。
What’s more, global warming, dams and pollution have taken a heavy toll on eel populations in North America and Europe.
还有，全球变暖问题，大坝问题，以及环境污染问题，都使得北美及欧洲地区的野生鳗鱼存活量近年来锐减。
Known to grow as long as about 5 feet (1.5 meters), moray species generally lack pectoral fins, unlike most other eel species.
我们已知这种欧洲海鳗最大能长到5英尺（1.5米）长，和绝大多数其他鳗鱼物种不同的是：它们通常没有胸鳍。
The eel is grilled on bamboo skewers over a hot wood fire, repeatedly dipped in water, and returned to the fire to steam the meat.
烧烤鳗鱼是将鳗鱼穿在竹签上放在热木火上烤，反复浸水，再放回火上，烤掉肉中的水汽。
Natural electric eel cells are about 14 percent efficient at converting sugar into electricity, compared to 19 percent for the engineered cells.
在把糖转换为电能的效率方面，天然电鳗电池为百分之十四，而他们设计的电池为百分之十九。
Natural electric eel cells are about 14 percent efficient at converting sugar into electricity, compared to 19 percent for the engineered cells.
在把糖转换为电能的效率方面，天然电鳗电池为百分之十四，而他们设计的电池为百分之十九。
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