英國學(xué)生科學(xué)讀本 Lesson 25 鯡魚(1)
Lesson 25 The Herring
第25課 鯡魚
Herrings are a kind of fish that live in the sea. They like salt water. Indeed if they are put into fresh water, they soon die. Now the gold-fish which we read about the other day likes fresh water, and it would die in afew minutes if it were put into the sea.
鯡魚也叫鯖魚,是一種生活在海里的魚, 喜歡咸水。要是把鯡魚放到淡水里, 很快就會死掉。咱們以前學(xué)過的金魚卻喜歡淡水,要是放到海水里, 過幾分鐘就沒命了。
Herrings are good for food. Ask your mother to buy some fresh herrings, and then you can see what they are like. If she will cook some for dinner, you will find that they are very good to eat.
鯡魚是很美味的食品。讓媽媽買點兒鯡魚回來, 就能看見它們什么樣了。媽媽把鯡魚做成菜, 你會覺得鯡魚肉很好吃的！
The herring is covered with scales. It has seven fins, and gills and eyes just like those of the gold-fish. Itgrows to a length of about one foot.
鯡魚的身體也蓋著鱗片, 有七個魚鰭, 也有魚鰓、眼睛, 跟金魚一樣。長度大約有一英尺。
Let us cut open a fresh herring, and look into it. We see that, like all fishes, it has a very long backbone made up of many little joints.
咱們把鯡魚切開, 看看里面吧。跟所有的魚一樣, 鯡魚也有一條很長的脊椎骨, 是由很多脊椎組成的。
You sometimes find a herring full of roe inside. If you look at this roe, you will see that it is made up of thousands and thousands of little round grains like seeds. These are the tiny round eggs of the herring, and itis only the mother fish that has roe.
有時候你會發(fā)現(xiàn)一條鯡魚, 魚肚子里盛滿了魚子。仔細看魚子, 會看見它是成千上萬個像種子一樣的小圓球組成的。這些小圓球就是鯡魚的卵, 只有母鯡魚才有魚子。
