Astonishingly good looks aside, the standout strength of all hagfishes is their slime.

撇开惊人外表不谈，所有盲鳗突出优势就是它们黏液。

Those contents happened to be thousands of kilograms of live hagfish, also known as slime eels.

这些东西是成千上万活盲鳗，也被称作黏液鳗鱼。

Fishes like the hagfish maintain their internal saltiness at the same level as the ocean around them.

像盲鳗这样鱼类会将体内盐分保持在与周围海洋相平。

Isn't that gross? I mean, a hagfish can produce enough mucus to fill a bucket in a minute.

不恶心吗，盲鳗一分钟内，就可以产出一桶粘液。

Meanwhile, the hagfish also actively repels the shark by spewing a stupendous supply of slime.

时，盲鳗喷出大量黏液来主驱赶鲨鱼。

This hagfish has detected a dead fish using its keen sense of smell and the tastebud-like organs dotting its skin.

这只盲鳗利用其敏锐嗅觉和遍布其皮肤味蕾式器官发现了一条死鱼。

Around a hundred slime glands line each side of the hagfish's body.

盲鳗身体两侧都有大约一百个黏液腺。

Others are making medicine from spider venom, learning how to regrow limbs from axolotls, or turning hagfish slime into bulletproof vests.

其它研究包括用蜘蛛毒液制造药，习如何从蝾螈身上再生四肢，或者把盲鳗粘液变成防弹背心。

The hagfish ties itself in yet another knot to gain leverage and yank off the meat.

盲鳗将自己打在另一个结上以获得杠杆作用并拉下肉。

Now, the hagfish is free from the jaws of death.

盲鳗逃脱了鲨鱼死亡之口。

Whale falls  are big events in the deep sea, attracting thousands of scavengers, like  octopi, hagfish, and deep-sea sharks.

鲸鱼坠落是深海中大事件，吸引了成千上万食腐，如章鱼、盲鳗和深海鲨鱼。

The world's oceans teemed with sharks, primitive ray-finned fishes, hagfish, and even our very early ancestors, the lobe-finned fish.

世界上海洋里到处都是鲨鱼、原始辐鳍鱼、盲鳗，甚至还有我们最早祖先——叶鳍鱼。

Starting at its tail and passing its body through, the hagfish effectively wipes away its own slime.

盲鳗从尾巴开始打结到剩下身体部位，它成功地抹去了自己黏液。

It was only marginally more fish-like than its earlier relatives, hagfish and conodonts, with which it shared a common ancestor.

它只比它早期亲戚盲鳗和牙形刺更像鱼，它们与它们有一个共祖先。

The hagfish's slime is so remarkable that people are trying to emulate it.

盲鳗黏液十分不寻常，以至于人们纷纷着利用。

Being caught in the shark's powerful jaws may seem like a guaranteed death sentence, but the hagfish has some tricks up its sleeve.

被鲨鱼有力牙齿咬住似乎已经预示了死亡降临，但盲鳗有一些逃生小技巧。

The hagfish contracts the muscles surrounding some of its slime glands, causing the cells to eject their contents into the seawater.

盲鳗收缩一些自己黏液腺周围肌肉，导致细胞将其内喷出到海中。

But hagfish slime threads rival the properties of materials like nylon.

但盲鳗黏液线可与尼龙等材料特性相媲美。

Several of these classes are specific types of fish, for example: jawless fish, like lampreys and hagfish, and cartilaginous fish, like sharks and rays.

这些纲类一些便是鱼类，比如：无颚纲鱼形，像七鳃鳗、盲鳗和软骨纲鱼，像鲨鱼和魔鬼鱼。

And fibers modeled after those in hagfish slime may present a much more sustainable alternative.

而仿照盲鳗黏液中纤维可能提供了一个更可持续替代方案。