eel

1At once like an eel she slid between Starkey's legs into the water.她像條鰻魚似的，立刻從斯塔奇兩腿之間滑入水中。

2As soon as he touched the knocker, it became an eel and wiggled away into the darkness.他一碰到門環，它就變成了一條鰻魚，在黑暗中扭動着消失了。

3Many people enjoy eating fried eel, but few stop to think about the life of this unique fish.很多人喜歡吃炸鰻魚，但很少有人會停下來想想這種獨特魚類的生活習性。

4Instead of a dead donkey, he saw a very much alive Marionette, wriggling and squirming like an eel.他看到的不是一頭死驢，而是一個活生生的木偶，那木偶和一條鰻魚一樣扭動着。

5Kyoto people say that the women in their city have such beautiful skin because they eat plenty of eel.京都人説他們城市裏的女人有這麼無暇的皮膚是因為她們吃了很多鰻魚。

6One day, I saw a beautiful piece of eel just sitting there, unpriced, and I asked the fisherman for it.有一天，我看到一條很漂亮的鰻魚就擺在那兒，沒有標價，我就向漁夫要了它。

7The discovery caused a sensation, people associate the sea eel with live animals, but also did not express any doubt.這一發現引起了轟動，人們將海鰻與活體動物聯繫起來，但也沒有表示任何懷疑。

8Those European and North American young then return to their respective coasts to begin the unusual life cycle of the eel anew.那些歐洲和北美洲的幼魚隨後回到它們各自的海岸，重新開始鰻魚獨特的生命週期。

9Other regional delicacies include anagomeshi, or sea eel rice, and tonkatsu ramen from Hakata, a pork-bone white soup with ramen noodles.其他地方美食包括鰻魚壽司，或鰻魚飯，博多豚骨拉麪——在豬脊骨高湯中下入拉麪。

10Electric Eel (電鰻) is a South American fish.電鰻是南美魚類。

11The electric eel can reach up to 9 feet long and can weigh up to 22 kg.這種電鰻可以長到9英尺長，重達22公斤。

12The bigger the eel, the greater the danger.鰻魚越大越危險。

13I bought eel this way for a couple of weeks.我用這種方式買了好幾星期的鰻魚。

14A weeks-old eel larva in a petri dish glows under blue light.培養皿中一週大的鰻魚苗在藍色燈光下發光。

15It's true for many mainland farms, especially those raising eel.內地有些養殖場的確是這樣，尤其是那些養鰻魚的地方。

16A moray eel lurks outside a cage full of fish in the Caribbean Sea.在加勒比海，一條海鰻潛伏在裝滿魚籠子的外面。

17Metal plates at the ends of the tank enabled the eel to power the bulbs.水槽一端的金屬片能夠收集電鰻所發的電，從而給燈泡供電。

18It turned out that a chef from another restaurant had shown up looking for eel.這是因為有另外一家的餐館主廚也來看鰻魚。

19Why isn’t eel, instead of turkey, the symbol of colonial resilience and gratitude?為什麼現在火雞代替了鰻魚，成為了美國感恩節的象徵符號？

20I wasn't surprised to see that the eel had been marked up to an astonishing price.我一點也不奇怪鰻魚被標到了令人吃驚的價格。

21I've observed them doing this at sacred Maori eel-feeding sites in New Zealand.在新西蘭，我曾經在專用的毛利人鰻魚餵養點看到它們取食。

22Yoshiaki Miyamoto hooked just one eel on his morning stint on Lake Biwa, near Kyoto.京都附近琵琶湖，宮本義明早上出海釣到一條鰻魚。

23Peruvians didn't seem to like eel, for example, which was a very common sushi topping.比如，秘魯人不太喜歡鰻魚，而鰻魚是非常普通的壽司甜品醬原料。

24Industrial eel farms buy baby eels and raise them for gourmands in Japan and elsewhere.工業鰻魚養殖場會買來小鰻魚，飼養它們以作為日本和其他地方的美食。

25The last fish turns out to be no cod or haddock but something eel-like, scary and toothy.釣上的最後一條魚不是鱈魚也不是黑線鱈，而是鰻魚樣的，可怕的露出牙齒的東西。

26The next day at the restaurant, I made the eel into tempura and sushi, which sold really well.第二天，在我的餐館裏，我用鰻魚做了tempura和壽司，賣得非常好。

27He's accustomed to eating eel every day, and now, because he hasn't had any, he's very homesick.他習慣了每天要吃鰻魚，可是現在，他因為沒有吃到，都開始有點想家了。

28Most all seafood is high in protein and low in fat, with the exception of a few, such as the eel.大多數的海鮮產品都含有高蛋白質和低脂肪的特點，但是也有例外，如鰻魚等。

29When the eel locates its prey, it opens a series of cellular gates through which the ions can flow.當電鰻確定了獵物的位置，就會打開一系列的細胞門，離子就可以流過這些細胞門。 ^[1]