" It'd be doin' 'em an unkindness, Hermione, " he said gravely, threading a massive bone needle with thick yellow yarn.

“这对他们来说不是一件好事，赫敏，”他严肃地说，用黄色粗纱线穿过一根粗大的骨针。

And the squid still swims around with its gladius intact, and the octopus with its stylets -- reminders of the history they share with the shelled creatures of the past.

而然游弋着， 内骨骼完好无损，章则带着它的骨针——这些都是它们与过去有壳生物共享历史的见证。

The spinsters and the litters, when they sit in the sun, and the young maids that weave their thread with bone, chant this song.

纺纱的人和抱着婴儿的女子，当她们坐在阳光下时，还有那些用骨针编织丝线的年轻姑娘，都吟唱着这首歌。

" She was dead, " Varamyr said, wincing as her bone needle pierced his flesh. " Someone smashed her head. Some crow" .

" 她已经死了，" 瓦拉米尔说。她的骨针刺穿皮肉，他不禁一缩。" 别人砸碎了她的脑袋。乌鸦干的。"

And scientists know that it was an echinoderm based on the material that made up its internal skeleton - a calcium carbonate matrix called stereom - which is a feature shared by all of the members of this group.

科学家们知道它是一种棘皮动物，这是根据构成其内骨骼的物质——一种称为骨针的碳酸钙基质来判断的，这一特征是该类群所有成员共有的。

But there's no evidence that it had stereom - the stuff that makes up the internal skeleton of all echinoderms, so it could've just been another round animal like a jellyfish or a sponge.

但没有证据表明它拥有骨针——构成所有棘皮动物内部骨骼的物质，所以它可能只是另一种圆形生物， 比如水母或海绵。

Each arm can bend and curl, thanks to supportive plates made of stereom and special connective tissues that can go soft or stiff.

每条臂都可以弯曲和卷曲，这得益于由骨针和特殊结缔组织制成的支持板，这些结缔组织可以变软或变硬。