This is a piece of abalone seashell that I keep on my desk.

这是我在桌子上一片鲍鱼贝壳。

Prior to my birth, he had been a scuba diver, abalone diver.

在我出生之前，曾是潜水员和鲍鱼捕捞者。

So you got your snails, your clams, your mussels, your abalone, your crabs and urchins.

你有你蜗牛、蛤蜊、贻贝、鲍鱼、螃蟹和海胆。

Their research suggests that ocean acidification significantly reduces the abalones' fertilization rate. Abalone are an important source of food for sea otters, who in turn help keep kelp forests in balance.

研究表明，海洋酸化显着降低了鲍鱼受精率。鲍鱼是海獭重要食物来源，而海獭反过来有助于维持海带森林平衡。

Finally, inspired by remarkable biological materials such as silk, abalone shell, tooth and others, we're designing new protein-based materials to address challenges in energy and ecological issues.

最后， 受到诸如蚕丝、鲍鱼壳、牙齿等卓越生物材启发，我正在设计新基于蛋白质材来解决能源和生态问题中挑战。

B. They are responsible for the decline of abalones in some regions.

它导致了某些区域鲍鱼减少。

At last I gave up looking for him and began to gather abalones for winter.

最后，我弃了寻找，开始收集鲍鱼过冬。

Inside a chilly lab, Boch is inducing female abalones to spawn. Each female releases streams of small green eggs through its respiratory holes.

在一个寒冷实验室里，博奇正在诱导雌性鲍鱼产卵。每只雌性都会通过其呼吸出细小绿色卵子。

Without urchins' presence, juvenile abalones are less likely to survive to adulthood.

没有海胆存在，小鲍鱼不太可能活到成年。

Barry and researcher Charles Boch are studying how ocean acidification affects abalone, specifically, whether it interferes with the ability of the shellfish to reproduce.

吉姆·巴里和研究员查尔斯·博奇正在研究海洋酸化如何影响鲍鱼，特别是是否干扰这种壳类动物繁殖能力。

After the eggs hatched, I put shreds of abalone under the tree and these she fed her young.

鸡蛋孵化后，我把鲍鱼丝在树下，她用这些来喂养她幼崽。

When abalones did not rebound, commercial fishing was also banned.

当鲍鱼数量没能恢复时，商业捕捞也被禁止。

In the old days on the island there were children to keep away the gulls, which would rather feast on abalones than anything else.

在过去， 岛上有孩子来驱赶海鸥，海鸥宁愿吃鲍鱼， 也不愿吃其任何东西。

An abalone can spawn tens of thousands of eggs at a time. In one tank are the females, in another, the males.

一只鲍鱼一次可以产下数万个卵。一个水箱里是雌性，另一个水箱里是雄性。

With its five arms spread out against the rock to which the abalone is fastened, it holds the shell with its suckers, and then begins to lift itself.

它五只手臂张开在固定鲍鱼岩石上，用吸盘握住壳，然后开始抬起自己。

This is when there are few starfish feeding, for they are as hard to pry loose from an abalone as an abalone is to pry from a rock.

这是海星很少吃时候，因为它很难从鲍鱼身上撬开， 就像鲍鱼从岩石上撬开一样困难。

Abalones are larger than your hand and twice as thick when fresh, but they shrink small in the sun so you have to dry many.

鲍鱼比你手大， 新鲜时厚两倍，但它在阳光下收缩很小， 所以你必须晒干很多。

Finally I tied strings to some of the abalone shells and hung them from poles.

最后，我在一些鲍鱼壳上系上绳子，把它挂在杆子上。

Along its sides were great numbers of red abalones and very few starfish, so before the sun was high I filled the bottom of the canoe.

沿着它两侧有大量红鲍鱼和很少海星，所以在太阳升起之前， 我就把独木舟底部填满了。

Each one had eyes fashioned of round or oblong disks of abalone shell, but the rest of their faces were blank.

每个人眼睛都是用圆形或长方形鲍鱼壳圆盘做成，但其余脸都是空白。