To these prey animals, an orchid mantis doesn't just look like a flower, it looks bigger and brighter than a flower — and there lies the trick.

对这些猎物来说，兰花螳螂不仅仅只是看起来像一朵花，它看起来比一朵花更大更亮 —— 而这就是窍门所在。

Mantises have compound eyes composed of thousands of light-sensing units.

螳螂的复眼由数千个感光单元组成。

You know, praying mantises are the exact opposite of voles, Morty.

螳螂完全和田鼠相反。

The praying mantis is the only insect that can look over its shoulders.

螳螂是唯一一种视野范围能越过肩膀的昆虫。

Not unlike a praying mantis, her odd and otherworldly beauty takes time to notice.

她就像一只螳螂，需要时间才能体会出她那奇特脱俗的美。

In my dreams, I'm usually running for my life from a giant praying mantis.

在我的梦，我通常在，一只巨大的螳螂。

Busy taking out the trash, the mantis shrimp keeps a sharp lookout.

忙着倒垃圾的螳螂虾保持着敏锐的观察力。

The front legs of the praying mantis look bent in prayer. Yet those legs are used to hunt. Tiny spikes hook onto prey so it can't get away.

螳螂的前腿看起来弯曲着，像在祈祷。然而，那双腿是用来捕猎的。腿上的小刺会钩住猎物，让它无法脱。

So Snoek is pretty much a gigantic mackerel, it's a game fish, feeds on loads of oily fish, so sardines, mackerel itself, mantis shrimp.

所以杖鱼是指巨大的鲭鱼，它是一种狩猎鱼，以大量富含油脂的鱼为食，所以像沙丁鱼、小鲭鱼本身、螳螂虾。

Come on, that's what we do. We give each other a hard time. Hey, Sheldon, you look like a praying mantis.

拜托 我们经常这样的 互相找不痛快 喂 谢尔顿 你长得像在祈祷的螳螂。

But no matter how it happens, understanding a little bit more about sonoluminescence definitely makes me respect mantis shrimp more.

但不管它是怎么发生的，对声致发光多一点了解肯定会让我更加尊重螳螂虾。

We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives.

我们喜欢看有关昆虫的书，尤其是当我们了解到螳螂等过着一种令人生畏的生活时，就更加爱读有关昆虫的书了。

But the mantis's attack is just as accurate and it takes in only one twentieth of a second.

不过螳螂同样精准的攻击却只需要十分之一秒。

This walking piece of vegetation is the dead-leaf mantis.

这个会动的植物是枯叶螳螂。

Well-known cannibals, like the praying mantis and black widow spider, were considered bizarre exceptions.

已知的同类相食者，如螳螂、黑寡妇蜘蛛曾被视为是奇怪的特例。

And with their petaled legs wrapped in pinks and yellows, orchid mantises can disappear amongst those forests of flowers.

像花瓣一样的腿包裹在粉红色和黄色中，兰花螳螂会消失在花丛中。

If an orchid mantis' disguise was too particular, it would limit the number of animals it might fool.

如果兰花螳螂的伪装太特别了，它就限制了它能够愚弄的动物的数量。

And while they might have fooled you, mantises and other insects and crustaceans have " pseudopupils."

虽然它们可能愚弄了你，但螳螂和其他昆虫以及甲壳类动物都有“伪瞳孔”。

To perfectly imitate the bark, some of these mantises even now have outgrowths that hide the shape of their bodies.

为了能更好地模仿树皮有一些螳螂在外壳上会长出突起来隐藏身体的形状。

Like their close kin, orchid mantises will even rock back and forth like a flower swaying in the breeze.

就像它们的近亲，兰花螳螂甚至像一朵在微风中摇曳的花一样来回摇摆。