At once like an eel she slid between Starkey's legs into the water.

她像条鳗鱼似的，立刻从斯塔奇两腿之间滑入水中。

As soon as he touched the knocker, it became an eel and wiggled away into the darkness.

他一碰到门环，它就变成了一条鳗鱼，在黑暗中扭动着消失了。

Many people enjoy eating fried eel, but few stop to think about the life of this unique fish.

很多人喜欢吃炸鳗鱼，但很少有人会停下来想想这种独特鱼类的生活习性。

Instead of a dead donkey, he saw a very much alive Marionette, wriggling and squirming like an eel.

他看到的不是一头死驴，而是一个活生生的木偶，那木偶和一条鳗鱼一样扭动着。

Kyoto people say that the women in their city have such beautiful skin because they eat plenty of eel.

京都人说他们城市里的女人有这么无暇的皮肤是因为她们吃了很多鳗鱼。

One day, I saw a beautiful piece of eel just sitting there, unpriced, and I asked the fisherman for it.

有一天，我看到一条很漂亮的鳗鱼就摆在那儿，没有标价，我就向渔夫要了它。

The discovery caused a sensation, people associate the sea eel with live animals, but also did not express any doubt.

这一发现引起了轰动，人们将海鳗与活体动物联系起来，但也没有表示任何怀疑。

Those European and North American young then return to their respective coasts to begin the unusual life cycle of the eel anew.

那些欧洲和北美洲的幼鱼随后回到它们各自的海岸，重新开始鳗鱼独特的生命周期。

Other regional delicacies include anagomeshi, or sea eel rice, and tonkatsu ramen from Hakata, a pork-bone white soup with ramen noodles.

其他地方美食包括鳗鱼寿司，或鳗鱼饭，博多豚骨拉面——在猪脊骨高汤中下入拉面。

Electric Eel (电鳗) is a South American fish.

电鳗是南美鱼类。

The electric eel can reach up to 9 feet long and can weigh up to 22 kg.

这种电鳗可以长到9英尺长，重达22公斤。

The bigger the eel, the greater the danger.

鳗鱼越大越危险。

I bought eel this way for a couple of weeks.

我用这种方式买了好几星期的鳗鱼。

A weeks-old eel larva in a petri dish glows under blue light.

培养皿中一周大的鳗鱼苗在蓝色灯光下发光。

It's true for many mainland farms, especially those raising eel.

内地有些养殖场的确是这样，尤其是那些养鳗鱼的地方。

A moray eel lurks outside a cage full of fish in the Caribbean Sea.

在加勒比海，一条海鳗潜伏在装满鱼笼子的外面。

Metal plates at the ends of the tank enabled the eel to power the bulbs.

水槽一端的金属片能够收集电鳗所发的电，从而给灯泡供电。

It turned out that a chef from another restaurant had shown up looking for eel.

这是因为有另外一家的餐馆主厨也来看鳗鱼。

Why isn’t eel, instead of turkey, the symbol of colonial resilience and gratitude?

为什么现在火鸡代替了鳗鱼，成为了美国感恩节的象征符号？

I wasn't surprised to see that the eel had been marked up to an astonishing price.

我一点也不奇怪鳗鱼被标到了令人吃惊的价格。

I've observed them doing this at sacred Maori eel-feeding sites in New Zealand.

在新西兰，我曾经在专用的毛利人鳗鱼喂养点看到它们取食。

Yoshiaki Miyamoto hooked just one eel on his morning stint on Lake Biwa, near Kyoto.

京都附近琵琶湖，宫本义明早上出海钓到一条鳗鱼。

Peruvians didn't seem to like eel, for example, which was a very common sushi topping.

比如，秘鲁人不太喜欢鳗鱼，而鳗鱼是非常普通的寿司甜品酱原料。

Industrial eel farms buy baby eels and raise them for gourmands in Japan and elsewhere.

工业鳗鱼养殖场会买来小鳗鱼，饲养它们以作为日本和其他地方的美食。

The last fish turns out to be no cod or haddock but something eel-like, scary and toothy.

钓上的最后一条鱼不是鳕鱼也不是黑线鳕，而是鳗鱼样的，可怕的露出牙齿的东西。

The next day at the restaurant, I made the eel into tempura and sushi, which sold really well.

第二天，在我的餐馆里，我用鳗鱼做了tempura和寿司，卖得非常好。

He's accustomed to eating eel every day, and now, because he hasn't had any, he's very homesick.

他习惯了每天要吃鳗鱼，可是现在，他因为没有吃到，都开始有点想家了。

Most all seafood is high in protein and low in fat, with the exception of a few, such as the eel.

大多数的海鲜产品都含有高蛋白质和低脂肪的特点，但是也有例外，如鳗鱼等。

When the eel locates its prey, it opens a series of cellular gates through which the ions can flow.

当电鳗确定了猎物的位置，就会打开一系列的细胞门，离子就可以流过这些细胞门。