1.Pearls contain a mixture of protein and calcium carbonate secreted by certain types of molluscs.

珍珠是某些类型软体泌碳酸钙同蛋白质一起构成混合。

2.Most crocodilians, he reminded people, preferred to dine on fish or molluscs rather than farmers.

他提醒人们，大多数鳄鱼宁愿吃鱼或软体而不愿吃农夫。

3.A giant fish needs a moderately-sized mollusc, thousands of miles away.

一条体型庞大鱼会需要一中等大小，远在千里之外软体。

4.In the Pantanal, there really is plenty for everyone, and it's all thanks to a mollusc.

在潘塔纳尔，食真很充足这全都一软体功劳。

5.Of course, molluscs are vital links in the complex chain of life. - Hm.

当然 软体是复杂生链中关键链接 - 嗯。

6.There are more species of molluscs in the ocean than any other animal phylum.

海洋中软体类远超其他门。

7.Was it me and my mollusc friends, with our amazing mantles and single foot?

是我和我软体朋友吗？ 我们有不可思议外套膜和单足？

8.Algae and plankton, corals and kelp, jellyfish, molluscs, crustaceans, fish  and whales… the abundance of life here equals any found on land.

藻类和浮游生、珊瑚和海带、水母、软体、甲壳类、鱼类和鲸鱼… … 这里生命丰富程度可与陆地上任何生命相媲美。机翻

9.They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in.

两个人好像是软体一般懒怠荒原伸出来一对触角，现在又把它们缩了回去。

10.Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.

人们在寒武纪群落里发现了王要集群，包括腕足、腔肠、棘皮、软体和脊索（脊椎进化支）。

11.Several introductions of damaging insects have been attacked successfully by further introductions of critters that eat them—though this has not worked so well for voracious introduced molluscs called giant African land snails.

通过进一步引入以它们为食小，成功地攻击了几引入破坏性昆虫——尽管这对被称为巨型非洲陆生蜗牛贪婪引入软体来说效果不佳。机翻

12.Their journey from small, passive molluscs to sleek, voracious predators took hundreds of millions of years of trial and error -- from developing shells to survive, to finally learning to thrive without them.

它们从小型、被软体到光滑、贪婪捕食者旅程经历了数亿年反复试验——从开发贝壳以生存，到最终学会在没有它们情况下茁壮成长。机翻

13.That encourages the growth of planktonic algae, and thus of everything that feeds on such plankton, or feeds on what feeds on them, including jellyfish, and also various molluscs and crustacea that loggerheads enjoy as an appetiser.

这有利于浮游藻类生长，因此也有利于以这些浮游生为食，或以这些为食生长，包括水母，还有各各样软体和甲壳，这些都是红海龟最爱。

14.But by the late Cambrian, one mollusc known as Plectronoceras had acquired a couple of adaptations that marked the beginning of a brand new form of transportation -- and a whole new kind of mollusk.

但是到了寒武纪晚期，一被称为 Plectronoceras 软体已经获得了一些适应性，这标志着一全新运输方式开始——以及一全新软体。机翻

15.In early fish-like vertebrates more than 500 million years ago; in a common ancestor of arthropods, such as insects, spiders and crustaceans, at around the same time; and then in the cephalopod molluscs around 300 million years ago.

在 5 亿多年前早期类鱼脊椎中；节肢共同祖先，例如昆虫、蜘蛛和甲壳类，大约同时出现；然后是头足类软体大约 3 亿年前。机翻

16.His undoing began when a committee of the Royal Society-a committee of which he happened to be chairman decided to award him its highest honor, the Royal Medal, for a paper he had written on an extinct mollusc called the belemnite.

英皇家学会一个委员会——欧文恰好是该委员会席决定授予他最高荣誉：英皇家勋章，表彰他写一篇关于一名叫箭石、已经绝软体论文。