That's what creates the huge range of iridescence that we see in beetles.

这就是我们在甲虫身上看到的产生大量虹彩的原因。

That's how we get this awesome iridescent blue.

我们就是这样得到这种令人惊叹的虹彩蓝色的。

(curious music) This is a phenomenon called iridescence.

（好奇的音乐）这是一种被称为虹彩的现象。

It's another when they appear with such striking iridescence.

当它们以如此令人惊叹的虹彩出现时，情况就不同了。

I think there's even... can blue be iridescent?

我觉得甚至… … 蓝色可以是虹彩的吗？

For example, one flower that produces incredibly strong iridescence are tulips.

例如，一种产生令人难以置信的强烈虹彩的花是郁金香。

The chromatophores are closed, and you see this magical iridescence just come out of the skin.

色素细胞闭合后，你会看到这种神奇的虹彩效果从皮肤中显现出来。

The scales and bracts are tinged with red and the seed-wings are purple with bright iridescence.

鳞带红色， 种子翅呈紫色并带有明亮的虹彩。

Yeah, that's the fundamental definition of iridescence is that the color changes depending on the direction that you are looking at it.

是的，这就是虹彩的基本定义，颜色会根据你看它的方向而变化。

Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist, it hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping back into the deep.

它笼罩在一层低垂的薄雾中，在闪烁虹彩的空中停顿了刻，又扑通一声落回海里。

Gladly I climbed along its dashing border, absorbing its divine music, and bathing from time to time in waftings of irised spray.

我很高兴沿着它陡峭的边界攀登，吸收它神圣的音乐，不时沐浴在飘荡的虹彩浪花中。

Narrator: For a special close-up, they might simulate the hologram physically using a silk screen and iridescent powders mixed with clear ink.

旁白：为了拍摄特写镜头，他们可能会使用丝网印刷与透明墨水混合的虹彩色粉来物理模拟全息图。

They also made some dummy beetles that were iridescently colored like real ones by gluing the excess skeletons of real beetles onto the replicas.

他们还制作了一些仿制的甲虫，通过将真实甲虫多余的外骨骼粘贴到复制品上，使其呈现出类似真实的虹彩颜色。

So if you ever stumble onto the iridescent violet wings of a purple emperor butterfly, take a second to appreciate one of nature's rarest spectacles.

因此，如果您无意中发现了紫色帝王蝶的虹彩紫罗兰色翅膀，请花点时间欣赏一下大自然中最稀有的奇观之一。

So it's not just the rewards, nectar and pollen, and the color and scent signals that advertise these, but bees also remember things like iridescence.

因此， 不仅仅是花蜜花粉这些奖励，以及宣传这些奖励的颜色香气信号，蜜蜂还会记住诸如虹彩这样的特征。

Selena Gomez, styled by Erin Walsh, has long been a lover of Ralph Lauren's classic evening gowns; she attended the 97th Academy Awards in a custom, iridescent satin dress.

在造型师艾琳·沃尔什的打理下，赛琳娜一直钟情于拉夫·劳伦的经典晚礼服；她曾在第97届奥斯卡身着一袭定制的虹彩缎面礼服亮相。

They also found that iridescent and black dummies took longer for the birds to discover and were more likely to survive for the full 48 hours.

他们还发现，带有虹彩黑色的假目标被鸟类发现的时间更长，并且更有可能在整个48小时内存活下来。

And when these birds are doing their mating displays, what they're  doing is they're holding up these feathers in a way that arranges the blackest black  next to the brightest bright iridescence.

当这些鸟类进行求偶展示时，它们会将羽毛以特定方式竖起， 使得最深的黑色与最鲜艳的虹彩相邻排列。

The color is pretty similar to what you'd see in blue jays, although it has a little bit less of the iridescence you might see in the feathers if you're looking at a blue jay in the right light.

这种颜色与蓝松鸦的羽毛颜色颇为相似，只不过在适当的光线下观察蓝松鸦时，其羽毛所呈现的虹彩效果稍显不足。