The Indians found oysters growing in the Chesapeake Bay.

第安人发现了生长在切萨皮克湾的牡蛎。

They did not know when, what, and how to feed the larvae. And they knew little about the predators that attack and eat baby oysters by the millions.

他们不知道何时、用什么以及如何喂养幼贝。他们对捕食数百万幼小牡蛎的动物天敌也所知无几。

New York is more vulnerable to storms. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's why since 2014 the non-profit Billion Oyster Project has been working to restore the city's oyster reefs.

纽约更容易受到风暴的侵袭。女被访者: 这就是为什么自2014年以来，非营利性的亿牡蛎项目一直致力于恢复该市的牡蛎礁。

From perfecting potato production in the Netherlands to planned 5G connected oyster farm in Japan, a variety of trials are cropping up across the world.

从荷兰的土豆种植到日本的牡蛎养殖，全世界都在用5G技术进行各种实验。

Eh? I thought you said it was for 'frosted oysters', whatever they are.

嗯？我记得说这是准备做" 起霜牡蛎" 的，不管那是什么。

In New York City, they're using oysters to help reduce the risk of major floods and flood damage like they saw during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

在纽约市，人们利用牡蛎降低特大洪水的风险与造成的损失，如2012年发生的超级风暴“桑迪”。

What a great way of using up oyster shells that would otherwise be thrown away.

这是利用牡蛎壳的好方法，否则牡蛎壳会被扔掉。

If these steps fail, oyster farmers like Brandon Eanes are at risk.

如果这些措施失败，像Brandon Eanes这样的牡蛎养殖者就会面临风险。

So what you have is real rich growth of algae for the oysters.

因此，对于牡蛎来说，藻类的生长非常旺盛。

When he was diving he saw a very large oyster.

他采珍珠的时候，发现了一个非常大的牡蛎。

Perhaps, the researchers say, because plastic interferes with the oysters' energy uptake.

研究人员表示或许是因为塑料对牡蛎吸收的能量产生了影响。

" I almost wish I had planted more oysters last year, " she said.

" 我几乎希望去年我放养了更多的牡蛎，" 她说。

Some New Orleans restaurants think their oyster shells can help.

新奥尔良市的一些餐馆认为客人饭后留下的牡蛎壳能帮上忙。

The flower sat there, opening and closing its petals, like some bizarre, many-lipped oyster.

莉莉等她靠近能看清楚后，张开了手掌，那朵花在她的掌心一开一合，像是只有许多开口的奇怪牡蛎。

These layers are slowly and successively produced by the animal itself.

这一层一层的物质都是住在贝壳里的牡蛎自己生成的。所以，珍珠形成得十分缓慢。

His body was returned to moscow in a refrigerated car used to transport oysters.

他的遗体被放在一辆运送牡蛎的冷藏车里运回了莫斯科。

There's clams, any kind of sea creatures, like oysters, things like that.

它们是海洋生物的壳，比如蛤，或者牡蛎之类的东西。

" We have about 10,000 mu (666.67 hectares) of oysters hanging under these buoys that have been upgraded to plastic ones," said Chen, out of the 60,000 mu (4,000 hectares) of mariculture area near the Meizhou Bay surrounding Fengwei County.

“我们有大约一万亩（666.67 公顷）的牡蛎挂在这些已升级为塑料的浮标下，”陈说，在凤尾县周围湄洲湾附近的六万亩（4000 公顷）海水养殖区中。

I guess from that moment I knew I was going to marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz. For when he smiled he looked like the kind of man he would sing to the oysters.

我想从那一刻起，我就知道自己会嫁给约瑟夫·沃吉维奇。因为当他微笑时，他看起来像那种会对着牡蛎唱歌的人。

And the chef brushes off any concerns about competition because he knows there is not other place like the Union Oyster House in Boston.

大厨并不在意所谓竞争的问题，因为她知道，在波士顿，联合牡蛎屋是独一无二的。