英语听书《海底两万里》第345期 第23章 珊瑚王国(42)

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　　mollusks were represented by varieties of squid that, according to Professor Orbigny, are unique to the Red Sea;  软体类有各种各样的枪乌贼，据奥比尼说，这些枪乌贼是红海的特产。

　　and reptiles² by virgata turtles belonging to the genus Chelonia, which furnished our table with a dainty but wholesome³ dish. 爬虫类有属于龟鳖属的条纹甲鱼，这种甲鱼可以供应我们餐桌上一盘又卫生又好吃砌食品。

　　As for fish, they were numerous and often remarkable⁴. Here are the ones that the Nautilus's nets most frequently hauled on board:  至于鱼类；这里有很多，并且很值得注意。下面是诺络留斯号的鱼网时常拉到船上来的鱼：

　　rays, including spotted⁵ rays that were oval in shape and brick red in color, their bodies strewn with erratic⁶ blue speckles and identifiable by their jagged double stings,  鳃鱼类，里面有椭圆形、砖石色，身上有不等的蓝黑斑点的稣鱼，从它们身上带有双重的齿形刺就可以认出来。

　　silver-backed skates, common stingrays with stippled⁷ tails, butterfly rays that looked like huge two-meter cloaks flapping at middepth,  背色银白的白鳍鱼，尾带小点的赤醇鱼，以及锦带谭鱼，像长两米的宽大套子，在水中间滚来滚去。

　　toothless guitarfish that were a type of cartilaginous fish closer to the shark, trunkfish known as dromedaries that were one and a half feet long and had humps ending in backward-curving stings, serpentine⁸ moray eels⁹ with silver tails and bluish backs plus brown pectorals trimmed in gray piping,  没齿稣，完全没有牙齿，是跟鲛鱼相近的软骨鱼。驼峰牡蛎，峰顶是弯的尖刺，身长一英尺半。蛇鱼类，像尾色银白、背上淡蓝、褐色胸部带灰色边线的海鳗一样。有光鱼，属鳍科的一种，身上有窄条的金色纹，带法国国旗的红蓝白三色。

　　a species of butterfish called the fiatola decked out in thin gold stripes and the three colors of the French flag, Montague blennies four decimeters long, superb jacks¹⁰ handsomely embellished¹¹ by seven black crosswise streaks¹² with blue and yellow fins¹³ plus gold and silver scales, snooks, standard mullet with yellow heads, parrotfish, wrasse, triggerfish, gobies, etc., plus a thousand other fish common to the oceans we had already crossed. 长四分米的楔形硬鳍鱼；美丽的加郎鱼，身上有漆黑的六条横带，蓝色和黄色的鳍,金色和银色的鳞。还有团足鱼，黄头耳形豚鱼，硬鳍斯加鱼，海婆鱼，箭鱼，虾虎鱼以及我们已经走过的海洋都有的其他千百种鱼类。

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