Let's draw our amoeba splitting, right?

们来画一个形虫分裂的图？

You've got an amoeba split, going along.

形虫在分裂 不断地分裂。

Now, human bodies, unlike amoebas, don't do that.

而人类肉体有别形虫 其不能分裂。

For bacteria, amoeba or your cells and a few very small animals.

对细菌，形虫或您的细胞以及一些很小的动物。

The thing about amoebas is that they do everything in the same place.

形虫的特点是它们的所有事情都是在同一个地方进行的。

This is Vampyrella, an amoeba with a suitable name.

这是 Vampyrella，一种名字恰如其分的形虫。

The cysts looked similar to those of amoebas that live in animal guts today.

这些包囊看起来类似今天生活在动物内脏中的形虫。

But for some reason, people weren't totally wowed by resurrected amoebas.

霍普金：但出某种原因，人们并没有完全被复活的形虫惊艳到。

He worked hard and was called " amoeba" because nobody could find him.

他工作努力被称为" 形虫" ，因为没人能找到他。

Man has developed out of the animals, and there is no serious gap between him and the amoeba.

人是从动物进化而来的，与形虫之间并没有太大的差距。

FROM PAKISTAN Researchers have detected the flesh-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri in the domestic water supply of Karachi, Pakistan's most populous city.

巴基斯坦卡拉奇是巴基斯坦人口最多的城市，而研究人员在该市的家庭供水系统中检测出了形虫“福氏耐格里阿米巴原虫”。

Fortunately, the one they found wasn't deadly to humans but it did cause some nasty damage to an amoeba they tested it on.

所幸，他们发现的病毒不会对人类造成致命的伤害，但可以伤害用实验的形虫。

Trace fossils made by amoeba-like organisms show up early in Earth's history, but the first definite animal trace fossils show up in the Ediacaran.

类形虫生物制造的痕迹化石出现在地球历史的早期，但第一个明确的动物痕迹化石出现在埃迪卡拉纪。

Though it’s very rare, a snootful of pond water or an improperly cleaned neti pot just might expose you to brain-eating amoebas called Naegleria fowleri.

尽管这种情况非常罕见，但一口池塘水或清洁不当的洗鼻壶可能会让您接触到名为 Naegleria fowleri 的形虫。

Luckily for you humans, it only infects amoebae, but the implications are still pretty scary for what else could be dormant down there in the ice.

对你们人类来说幸运的是， 它只会感染形虫，但对其他可能潜伏在冰下的东西来说， 其影响仍然相当可怕。

You might think that they, like snails or clams, build these shells around themselves after they are born, and that is true from some Testate Ameobas.

你可能会认为它们像蜗牛或蛤蜊一样，在它们出生后就在自己周围建造这些壳，这对一些有遗嘱的形虫来说是正确的。

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress-though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

从形虫到人的过程在哲学家看来显然是一种进步——尽管形虫是否同意这种观点尚不得而知。

Your bones, tendons, and cartilage bind, support, and protect your organs and give you a skeleton so that you can move with a purpose, instead of blobbing around like an amoeba.

你的骨头，肌腱和软骨结合，支持和保护你的器官，给你一个骨架，这样你就可以有目的地移动，而不是像形虫一样四处飘动。

Thousands of amoebas act together like one, like minions to their chemical messenger overlord, eventually even morphing into weird tree-like structures that allow a few lucky individuals to escape as spores to better and more fruitful lands.

成千上万的形虫像一个人一样一起行动，就像它们的化学信使霸主的爪牙，最终甚至成奇怪的树状结构，让一些幸运的个体作为孢子逃往更好、更肥沃的土地。

But it's definitey some kind of Testate Ameoba, which are ameoba that build shells for themselves to live in, and that protect them from predators and, just, the world, which can be a rough place.

但这绝对是某种 Testate Ameoba，这种形虫会为自己建造外壳供自己居住，并保护它们免受掠者的侵害，也就是保护世界， 这可能是一个艰难的地方。