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

撇开惊人的外表不谈，所有鳗的突出优势就是它们的黏液。

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

些东西是成千上万活的鳗，也被称作黏液鳗鱼。

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

像鳗样的鱼类会将体内的盐分保持在与周围海洋相同的水平。

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

不，鳗一分钟内，就可以产出一水桶粘液。

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

同时，鳗喷出大量的黏液来主动驱赶鲨鱼。

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

鳗的身体两侧都有大约一百个黏液腺。

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

鳗逃脱了鲨鱼的死亡之口。

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

鳗利用其敏锐的嗅觉和遍布其皮肤的味蕾式器官发现了一条死鱼。

9.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物，学习如何从蝾螈身上再生四肢，或者把鳗粘液变成防弹背。

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

鳗将自己打在另一个结上以获得杠杆作用并拉下肉。机翻

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

世界上的海洋里到处都是鲨鱼、原始辐鳍鱼、鳗，甚至还有我们最早的祖先——叶鳍鱼。机翻

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

鲸鱼坠落是深海中的大事件，吸引了成千上万的食腐动物，如章鱼、鳗和深海鲨鱼。机翻

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

但鳗的黏液线可与尼龙等材料的特性相媲美。

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

鳗的黏液十分不同寻常，以至于人们纷纷学着利用。

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

鳗从尾巴开始打结到剩下的身体部位，它成功地抹去了自己的黏液。

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

它比它的早期亲戚鳗和牙形刺更像鱼，它们与它们有一个共同的祖先。机翻

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

而仿照鳗黏液中的纤维可能提供了一个更可持续的替代方案。

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

鳗收缩一些自己黏液腺周围的肌肉，导致细胞将其内物喷出到海水中。

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

被鲨鱼有力的牙齿咬住似乎已经预示了死亡的降临，但鳗有一些逃生的小技巧。

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

些纲类的一些便是鱼类，比如：无颚纲鱼形动物，像七鳃鳗、鳗和软骨纲鱼，像鲨鱼和魔鬼鱼。