英语听书《海底两万里》第222期 第17章 海底森林(3)
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There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens1, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet2 rosetangle, 我在这里又看到的，不是像在诺第留斯号船上风干的标本，而是恬生生的、似乎迎凤招展地作扇子般展开的孔雀彩贝，
sea
tangle3 stretching out their young and
edible4 shoots, 大红的陶瓷贝，伸长像可食的嫩笋一样的片形贝。
twisting
strings5 of kelp from the genus Nereocystis that bloomed to a height of fifteen meters,
bouquets6 of mermaid's cups whose stems grew wider at the top, 细长柔软，一直长到十五米高的古铜藻，茎在顶上长大的一束一柬瓶形水草，
and a number of other open-sea plants, all without flowers. 以及其他许多的海产植物，通通没有花。
It's an odd anomaly in this bizarre element! as one
witty7 naturalist8 puts it. The animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable kingdom doesn't! 一位很风趣的生物学家曾说过：动物类开花，植物类不开花，大海真是奇异例外的环境，古怪新奇的自然！
These various types of shrubbery were as big as trees in the
temperate9 zones; 在这些像温带树木一般高大的各种不同的灌木中间，
in the damp shade between them, there were clustered actual bushes of moving flowers,hedges of zoophytes in which there grew
stony10 coral striped with twisting furrows, 在它们的湿润的荫影下面，遍生着带有生动花朵的真正丛林，植虫动物的篱笆行列，上面像花一般开放出弯曲条纹的脑纹状珊瑚，
and to complete the illusion, minnows flitted from branch to branch like a
swarm15 of
hummingbirds16, while there rose underfoot, 它们像成群的蜂雀，从这枝飞到那枝，至于两腮耸起、鳞甲尖利的麦虫鱼，飞鱼，单鳍鱼，
like a covey of snipe, yellow fish from the genus Lepisocanthus with
bristling17 jaws18 and sharp scales, flying gurnards, and pinecone fish. 那简直就像一群鹌鹑，在我们脚下跳来跳去。
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