Guests praised the chef for the wonderful skate he cooked.

客人称赞厨师烧的鳐非常可口。

And this includes 18 species of sharks and rays.

其中18种鳐。”

Other nearby predators were sharks and rays.

附近的其他食者是鳐。

Twenty-four of the 31 species of sharks and rays are threatened with extinction.

31种鳐中有24种濒临灭绝。

Sharks and rays are both fish with skeletons made of cartilage, not bone.

鳐的骨骼都是软骨组成的，而不是骨头。

On the former, the lit nets caught 95% fewer kilograms of sharks, rays and skates.

关于前者，点燃的渔网获的、魟鳐数量减少了95%。

His particular concern was for the safety of elasmobranchs, as sharks, rays and skates are called collectively.

他特别担心的是板鳃的安全，板鳃是、魟鳐的统称。

Some of the species being protected are the world's fastest shark (the mako shark), wedgefishes and guitarfishes.

受保护的物种界上最快的（灰鲭）、圆犁头鳐科以及犁头鳐。

But they also catch sharks and rays, turtles and birds.

但他们也捉鳐、海龟鸟类。

Sharks and rays, known collectively as elasmobranchs, seem particularly vulnerable.

鳐统称为板鳃类动物，似乎特别容易受到伤害。

In their wake, bony fish and cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays took over the oceans.

在它们的身后，硬骨软骨如鳐接管了海洋。

Welcome to the Philadelphia Zoo, which crawls with rare mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes, including sharks, rays, and other fishlike vertebrates.

欢迎到费城动物园来，这里到处都是珍稀的哺乳动物，鸟类，爬行动物，两栖动物，类，，鳐，还有其他的类似的脊椎动物。

Meanwhile, newly formed connections with the Caribbean Sea brought marine life, like dolphins and rays, to the heart of the continent.

与此同时，与加勒比海新建立的联系将海豚鳐等海洋生物带到了大陆的中心。

The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.

这些并不是或逆戟鲸，而是深受人们喜爱的食用品种，如鳕鳐，只不过它们长得出奇地大，有时长达12英尺。

Tropical coral reefs support 25% of all marine  life, from the largest rays to the smallest microorganisms; but they aren't the only plentiful  ecosystems found in the ocean's sunny shallows.

热带珊瑚礁支持 25% 的海洋生物，从最大的鳐到最小的微生物；但它们并不是在阳光明媚的海洋浅滩中发现的唯一丰富的生态系统。

He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel.

他吃了海星长嘴、螃蟹鲽、鲽鲮、鳐他的伴侣、鲭梭梭， 还有那条真正扭来扭去的鳗。