Once methylmercury is in, it doesn't leave.

一旦甲基进入，它就不会离开。

Living at the top of the food chain, sharks can accumulate dangerous levels of methylmercury.

活在食物链的顶端，所以鲨鱼可以积累达到危险水平的。

The more the fish ate, the more methylmercury they accumulated in their cells.

鱼吃得越多，它们细胞中积累的甲基就越多。

But the methylmercury produced by the bacteria was bioavailable, meaning that the plants were able to absorb it.

但是细菌产的甲基是物可利用的，这意味着植物能够吸收它。

When it gets inside the body, methylmercury binds to a different amino acid, called cysteine.

甲基进入人体时，它会与一种不同的氨基酸结合，称半胱氨酸。

By 1962, researchers had proved that the chemical processes used by the Chisso factory could cause the methylmercury poisoning.

到 1962 年，研究人员已经证明，奇索工厂使用的化学过程可能导致甲基中毒。

And methylmercury is especially poisonous for humans and other animals because unlike elemental mercury, it is almost entirely absorbed in the gut.

甲基对人类和其他动物尤其有毒，与不同，它几乎可以完全被肠道吸收。

We now know that methylmercury gets through by disguising itself as a super important component of proteins — the essential amino acid methionine.

我们现在知道甲基是通过伪装成蛋白质中极其重要的成分——必需氨基酸蛋氨酸来通过屏障的。

Mercury Mercury occurs naturally in air, water and soil, but it gets very dangerous when it builds up in fish and becomes methylmercury.

天然存在于空气、水和土壤中，但它在鱼体内积累并变成甲基时会变得非常危险。

Doctors and researchers launched an investigation into what they started calling Minamata Disease, and by 1959, they had found the cause: methylmercury poisoning from fish.

医和研究人员对他们开始称之水俣病的疾病展开了调查，到 1959 年，他们已经找到了原：来自鱼类的甲基中毒。

Our simulations show that the projected methylmercury concentrations in forage fish and Chinook salmon will surpass Canada's mercury consumption limits this century, as well as the consumption advisory level issued by the World Health Organization.

我们的模拟显示，本世纪内，饲料鱼和奇努克鲑鱼中的预计甲基浓度就将超过加拿大的摄入限额，以及世界卫组织发布的摄入指引水平。

When the bacteria came into contact with the extra inorganic mercury at Minamata, they transformed it into the most poisonous form of the metal: methylmercury, which is a carbon attached to a mercury with a single positive charge.

细菌在水俣接触到多余的无机时，它们将其转化最毒的金属形式：甲基，这是一种附着在上的碳，带有一个正电荷。