Its thirst assuaged, the Worm slithered aside, and vanished into a hole in the ground.

蚯蚓的焦渴得到了缓解，慢慢地爬动到一旁，钻进一个地洞不见了。

Well, here's Janelle again with the answer… If you're looking at rough computing power, the algorithms we're working with are probably somewhere around the level of an earthworm.

好的，这是简妮尔再次谈到的，她给出了答案… … 如果你说的是粗略计算能力，那我们使用的算法水平可能约在蚯蚓的水平。

And unlike common earthworms, the Mongolian death worm has a thick body which pulsates as it moves, egh.

与普通的蚯蚓不一样，蒙古死亡蠕虫有着会随着移动而有规律收缩的粗大。

He fills his billiard room with earthworms in pots, with glass covers.

他在台球室里放满了 玻子里的蚯蚓。

Unlike other usual North American earthworms, these highly active worms eat large amounts of humus.

与其他常见的北美蚯蚓不同，这些度活跃的蚯蚓吃大量腐殖质。

Its body is composed of more than one hundred rings, all joined together.

蚯蚓的一百多个彼此相连的环节组成。

But it is also known as " Alabama jumper, " " Jersey wriggler, " and " crazy worm." Unlike other usual North American earthworms, these highly active worms eat large amounts of humus.

但它也被称为“阿拉巴马跳跃者”、“泽西蠕虫”和“疯狂蠕虫”。与其他常见的北美蚯蚓不同，这些度活跃的蠕虫吃大量腐殖质。

Their segmented bodies, like an earthworm with rows of ringed compartments, help them easily regrow a new head or tail at the first sign of trouble.

这些虫子的躯分成小段，就上有一排排环纹隔间的蚯蚓，这种特征令它们刚开始感觉到麻烦时，就能轻松重新长出新头或尾巴。

You can find confident assertions that the number of described earthworm species is 4,000 and equally confident assertions that the figure is 12,000.

你可以找到很有把握的断言称已被描述过的蚯蚓是4000种，也可以找到同样很有把握的断言说是12000种。

The current world record for " most worms charmed" was set by a 10-year-old British girl in 2009.

当前 “召唤最多蚯蚓” 的世界纪录是一名 10 岁的英国女孩在 2009 年创造的。

America during the last Ice Age, it was probably a savanna, with its own set of native earthworms.

当地可能就是莽原，还有原生种的蚯蚓。

Worms are eaten by birds when they come to the top of the ground, and they are chased and eaten by moles when they burrow under it.

当蚯蚓爬到地面上的时候, 鸟儿就会捕食它们；当它们蜷缩在土壤中的时候, 鼹鼠又会对它们展开搜捕。

He found that Eastern moles had astounding tracking abilities, could eat their weight in worms every day, and were abundant in the Florida Panhandle.

他发现鼹鼠有惊人的追踪能力，他们每天都能吃和自己重相当的蚯蚓，而且大量存在于佛罗里达狭地。

When Catania released a single mole into worm- and soil-filled arenas, about 30% of the worms crawled to the surface in the first hour — a markedly different result from the control and rain trials.

当卡塔尼亚将一只鼹鼠放到满是蚯蚓和泥土的培养里时，大约 30% 的蚯蚓在第一个小时内爬到地面——这与对照的降雨试验结果明显不同。

Have you ever seen the " worm-casts, " or little curly heaps of fine mould which the earth-worm leaves behind it?

你有没有看到过“蚯蚓粪便”, 也就是蚯蚓排出的卷曲状小块烂泥?

In 1881, Charles Darwin published his final work, a bestseller that rivaled his most well-known books at the time: " The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits."

1881 年，查尔斯·达尔文发表了他最后一部著作，这本畅销书堪比他当时最著名的著作：《腐殖土产生与蚯蚓的作用》。

The earth-worm's body is very elastic.

蚯蚓的非常灵活。

The body of the earth-worm is covered with slime , which helps it to burrow in the ground, for its wet slimy body passes easily through the soft earth.

蚯蚓的外包裹着粘液, 这样可以帮助它在泥土中钻行, 因为黏滑、湿润的能够轻松地在柔软的泥土中穿梭。

For over a century, humans in the southern US, the UK, and elsewhere have been unknowingly exploiting the worm's escape response.

一个多世纪以来，美国南部、英国和其他地方的人类一直在不知不觉地利用这种蚯蚓的逃跑反应。

Within it, Darwin noted that worms sometimes left their burrows when the ground trembled and mentioned an interesting hypothesis: maybe they flee because they believe they're being pursued by moles.

在书中，达尔文提到，地面震动时蚯蚓有时会离开它们的洞穴，他还提出了一个有趣的假说：也许蚯蚓的逃离是因为它们认为自己在被鼹鼠追赶。