Why are no elephants the size of amoeba?

为什么没有像阿巴原虫尺寸的大象？

FROM PAKISTAN Researchers have detected the flesh-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri in the domestic water supply of Karachi, Pakistan's most populous city.

巴基斯坦卡拉奇是巴基斯坦口最多的城市，而研究员在该市的家庭供水系统中检测出了食脑变形虫“福氏耐格里阿巴原虫”。

Or in the case of the giant viruses, amoeba.

或者在巨型病毒的情况下，是阿巴原虫。

Some germs are really weird looking, like this one called an 'amoeba'.

有些细菌看起来真的很奇怪，比如这种叫作“阿巴”的细菌。

Anybody with political instincts whatsoever, anybody with an IQ higher than an amoeba would say, no, we shouldn't do that.

任何有政治直觉的，任何智商不低于阿巴原虫的，都会说：不，我们不该这么做。

The chance that any virus capable of infecting an amoeba would be able to infect a human is extremely unlikely.

能够感染阿巴原虫的任何病毒能够感染类的可能性极低。

So these scientists, basically, they take the samples, they culture the sample with this amoeba, and they see what viruses grow.

所以这些科学家基本上是取样，用阿巴原虫培养样本，然后观察有哪些病毒生长出来。

I think that Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros might have been the first album that I...like I went to Amoeba and I specifically selected that album.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros 可能是我买的第一张专辑......应该是我去阿巴的时候特意买了这张专辑。

Though it’s very rare, a snootful of pond water or an improperly cleaned neti pot just might expose you to brain-eating amoebas called Naegleria fowleri.

尽管非常罕见，但鼻子里灌进池塘水或使用清洁不当的净鼻壶可能会让你接触到一种名为福氏耐格里阿巴的食脑阿巴。

You might think that they, like snails or clams, build these shells around themselves after they are born, and that is true from some Testate Ameobas.

你可能会认为它们像蜗牛或蛤蜊一样，在出生后会在自己周围建造这些壳，这在某些有壳阿巴中是正确的。

So they asked for a sample from this burrow, cultured it with an amoeba, and they got Pithovirus sibericum This giant virus ... bigger than anything they've ever seen.

于是他们从这个洞穴中取了一样本，用阿巴原虫进行培养，结果得到了西伯利亚拟菌病毒。这种巨大的病毒… … 比他们以往见过的任何病毒都要大。

But it's definitey some kind of Testate Ameoba, which are ameoba that build shells for themselves to live in, and that protect them from predators and, just, the world, which can be a rough place.

但肯定是某种有壳阿巴，它们是会为自己建造壳来居住的阿巴，这些壳可以保护它们免受捕食者和其他环境威胁的侵害，因为这个世界有时确实很残酷。

Tracts have been written on the love life of amoebae, paramecia, snails, and ants, to say nothing of most of the so-called higher animals, who are said to love their masters as well as one another.

关于阿巴虫、草履虫、蜗牛和蚂蚁的爱情生活，已经写了很多小册子，更不用说大多数所谓的高等动物了，据说它们既爱自己的主，也爱彼此。

I realized how much of my personality was actually... the religion and so I felt a little bit like I was... I was just kind of... an amoeba like floating around without a structure or a shell.

我意识到我的性格中有多少实际上是… … 宗教，所以我感觉有点像… … 我只是… … 像阿巴原虫一样漂浮着，没有结构或外壳。

It is horribly relevant In his laboratory in Moscow Persikov discovers a ray of life that makes Amebi and tadpoles reproduce at speed. Thrilled. He orders extra kit from Germany and exotic eggs from across the Atlantic like the virus.

这实在是太切题了。在莫斯科的实验室里，佩尔西科夫发现了一种能让阿巴虫和蝌蚪迅速繁殖的生命射线。他兴奋不已，从德订购了额外的设备，并从大西洋彼岸购买了各种异蛋类，就像病毒一样。