But it turns out that the tiny teeth of the common limpet -- an aquatic snail found in rock pools around the world -- are even stronger.

但事实证明， 普通帽贝— — 一种在世界各地岩石池中发蜗牛— —细小牙齿甚至更强壮。

They found carnivorous polychaete worms and heat-tolerant limpets that seem to have slipped between the cracks in the seafloor to colonise the cavities underneath.

他们发食肉多毛类蠕虫和耐热帽贝似乎是从海底裂缝之间溜进来并在下面洞穴中定居。

I clung to the office with the true limpet touch for many long months, but, alas, I was combed out at last.

我以真正帽贝触感紧紧抓住办公室好几个月， 但是，唉，我终于精疲力尽了。

" EVERYBODY IS ON LIMPET RATIONS FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS" .

" 在接下来三周里，每个人都在配给帽贝。"

" It's the most enormous limpet I've ever seen, " said Fishlegs in awe.

" 这是我见过最大帽贝，" 小鱼腿敬畏地说。

So thank you limpets. Thank you, deformed photons.

所以谢谢你帽贝。谢谢你，变形光子。

Longer at-sea times means barnacles, limpets, and mussels can establish colonies that can span multiple generations.

更长海上时间意味着藤壶、帽贝和贻贝可以建立跨越多代。

Now, we get a lot of jargon here, we get another passive voice, were coupled to and then keyhole limpet.

在，我们在这里得到很多行话，我们得到另一个被语态，被耦合到，然后是 keyhole 帽贝。

At exactly the same moment as Hiccup sat down suddenly, gazing at the limpet, there was the faint, clear sound of a whistle being blown not far away.

就在卡嗝突然坐下来，凝视着帽贝同时，不远处传来微弱而清晰哨声。

Well, limpet teeth contain goethite, a crystalline form of iron, oxygen, and hydrogen.

好吧，帽贝牙齿含有针铁矿， 一种铁、氧和氢结晶形式。

Limpets are a bit like worms and a bit like snot and a lot less tasty than either.

帽贝有点像蠕虫，有点像鼻涕，味道比这两者都差得多。

After about ten minutes of shoveling, they hit on an underground cache of limpet shells.

在铲了大约10分钟后，他们发了一处地下藏匿帽贝。

But as a limpet grows, goethite forms into especially compact, highly resilient, curved filaments that make it stronger than anything else in nature… that we know of.

但随着帽贝长， 针铁矿会形成特别紧凑、高弹性、弯曲细丝，使其比自然界中任何其他东西都要坚固… … 据我们所知。

The most gigantic limpet shell anyone had ever seen.

这是人们见过最大帽贝。

For years they had had to exist on shellfish, the limpet in particular because it was so plentiful.

多年来，它们不得不以贝类为，特别是帽贝，因为它数量太多了。