Long ago, Earth's oceans were filled with purple single-celled organisms called archaea.

很久以前，地球海洋里满是细色物，叫做古菌。

Bacteria are single-celled, living organisms that can exist and perform life functions on their own.

细菌是细活物体，可以独立存在并执行命功能。

Meanwhile, the general blueprint of single-celled organisms has hardly changed in 3 billion years.

与此同时，细物总体蓝图在 30 亿年中几乎没有变化。

Dinoflagellates are one of the biggest single-celled organisms known to man.

甲藻是人类已知最大细物之一。

Wherever they exist, these single-celled creatures illuminate anything that moves, like these bow-riding dolphins.

无论它们在哪里， 这些细物都会照亮任何移动物体，比如这些骑弓海豚。

But the team did see single-celled organisms called ciliates in the sick urchins.

但该调查小组确实在患病海胆中发现了名为纤毛虫细物。

Bacteria are single-celled organisms that live nearly everywhere on Earth.

细菌是细物，地球上几乎所有地方都有细菌。

It is discovered 190,000 different species of various bacteria and single-celled plants and creatures.

该项目发现19万多种细菌、细植物和物。

What would a one-celled organism have to be embarrassed about?

细物会有什么需要感到羞耻事啊？

Imagine you're one of those more complex single-celled organisms, and you are hangry.

想象一下，你是那些更复杂细物之一，你饿了。

Archaea are a group of single-celled microbes similar to bacteria but different to all other known types.

古菌是指细微物，类似于细菌，但是不同于已知细菌类型。

The story begins early in the morning, around 4am, with the rise of the first simple, single-cell organisms.

在清晨4点左右，故事伴随着一个简细物出现开始。

Tiny living things like bacteria or other single-celled organisms reproduce by creating exact copies of themselves.

像细菌或其他细物这样微小物会通过精确复制自己来进行繁殖。

And a good fraction are what Macalady calls " genetic dark matter" -- the single-celled unknown.

其中有很大一部分是马卡拉帝所说“基因暗物质”--未知细物。

This was the first-ever citing of single-celled organisms so no wonder the Royal Society didn't trust him.

这是人类有史以来首次提及细物，难怪英国皇家学会不信任他。

We can trace its odoriferous origins back to the single-celled organisms who sampled Earth's most primordial perfumes.

我们可以追溯到它气味起源于细物谁取样地球上最原始香水。

What is the collective name for single-celled, microscopic organisms that live in the soil, water and animals?

活在土壤、水和动物中细微物名称是什么？

We find secreted chemical messengers in everything from single-celled organisms, to plants, to you, and your dog.

我们在从细物到植物，再到你和你狗一切事物中都发现了分泌化学信使。

I'm studying one-celled organisms to try and find the neurochemicals that lead to the feeling of shame.

我在研究细物，试图从它们身上找到引发羞愧感神经化学物质。

Researchers isolated and grew an intriguing single-celled microorganism in the lab from sediment off the central islands coast.

研究人员在日本中部岛屿海岸附近沉积物中发现了一种迷人细微物，并在实验室分离并培育出了它。