双语有声阅读:Slippery When Wet 滑溜溜的鳗鱼

Slippery When Wet 滑溜溜的鳗鱼

Many people enjoy eating fried eel¹, but few stop to think about the life of this unique fish. There are hundreds of different species of eel, all of which can be roughly divided into two groups according to their habitat: saltwater and freshwater.

Despite living in different waters, all eels² spawn³ in the sea. This means some freshwater eels migrate great distances to reach their saltwater destinations. Biologists have discovered freshwater eels from North American and European rivers and lakes gathering⁴ as far as the middle of the Atlantic ocean during  late summer. Once the eels arrive, the females lay their eggs and the males fertilize⁵ them. The adult eels then die there.

The next spring a new generation is born in the ocean. Those European and North American young then return to their respective coasts to begin the unusual life cycle of the eel anew.

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。鳗鱼的种类有数百种，根据其栖息地大致可以分为两类：咸水鳗鱼和淡水鳗鱼。

尽管生活在不同的水域，所有的鳗鱼都在海里产卵。这说明一些淡水鳗鱼必须长途迁徙到它们的咸水产卵地。生物学家已经发现，夏末时节，北美及欧洲河流湖泊里的淡水鳗鱼会远迁到大西洋中部聚集。一旦这些鳗鱼抵达了目的地，雌鳗鱼就会产卵而雄鳗鱼就会给它们授精。之后成年鳗鱼就死在那儿。

第二年春天，新一代鳗鱼在海中诞生。那些欧洲和北美洲的幼鱼就会回到它们各自的海岸，重新开始鳗鱼独特的生命周期
 

1 eel   

n.鳗鲡

参考例句：

• He used an eel spear to catch an eel.他用一只捕鳗叉捕鳗鱼。
• In Suzhou,there was a restaurant that specialized in eel noodles.苏州有一家饭馆，他们那里的招牌菜是鳗鱼面。

2 eels   

abbr. 电子发射器定位系统（=electronic emitter location system）

参考例句：

• Eels have been on the feed in the Lower Thames. 鳗鱼在泰晤士河下游寻食。
• She bought some eels for dinner. 她买回一些鳗鱼做晚餐。

3 spawn   

n.卵，产物，后代，结果；vt.产卵，种菌丝于，产生，造成；vi.产卵，大量生产

参考例句：

• The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
• These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。

4 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

5 fertilize   

v.使受精，施肥于，使肥沃

参考例句：

• Fertilizer is a substance put on land to fertilize it.肥料是施在地里使之肥沃的物质。
• Reading will fertilize his vocabulary.阅读会丰富他的词汇。