piranha

Piranha fish live in the lakes , and electric eels .

湖里有水虎鱼，还有电鳗。

Time for the ultimate killer 's test : How would the piranha react to my duck ?

现在是终极杀手测试时间：水虎鱼会对我的鸭子如何反应呢？

Or I would throw her into the sea , so piranha would eat her .

或者把她扔进海里，小鱼会把她吃掉。

There are more than twenty different species of piranhas in the wild .

在自然环境中，总共有二十多种不同的食人鱼。

Locals in the Amazon region often use piranha teeth to make tools and weapons .

亚马逊当地人经常用食人鱼的牙齿来做工具和武器。

Libya , the Americans insist , is a completely different kettle of piranhas .

美国坚称，利比亚的情况则完全不同。

It 's all right for you two . You 're used to being social piranhas ... I 'm a very popular person usually .

你们不会有什么损失的，反正早习惯当社交食人鱼了…可我通常人气很高的。

During the rainy season when food is plentiful , piranhas eat more plants and insects .

在雨季食物丰富时，食人鱼多数吃植物和昆虫。

Piranhas are freshwater fish that are found in rivers and floodplains of South America .

食人鱼是一种淡水鱼类，多发现于河流及南美涝原上。

They dropped a microphone into a piranha tank that , at different times , held three groups of10 fish .

在不同时段，科学家们把麦克风放在食水鱼水箱中，这个水箱中有10条食人鱼，它们为分3组。

The researchers are now interested in whether piranhas vocalize during mating .

研究人员现在研究，食人鱼在交配时是否发声。

But when the piranhas threatened each other over food , they produced a barking sound .

但是，当它们因为争夺食物而互相恐吓的时候，就会发出一种吠叫声。

Scientists had known that piranha barked when you pick them up - carefully , of course .

科学家已经知道，当人类拥抱食人鱼时，它们会叫——当然，人类要小心一些。

Another common belief is that piranha form large schools for hunting , allowing them to attack larger prey than a single fish could .

人们普遍认为食人鱼聚成一大群是为了捕食，这样相对于单兵作战更易捕猎到较大的猎物。

Piranhas have long terrorized American audiences , with their ferocious appetites and need for meat .

比拉食人鱼一直让美国观众感到恐怖，它们生性凶残，爱吃肉食。

While my Grade 3 class was completing a writing exercise , one of the students asked me how to spell " piranha . "

三年级的那个班正在做写作练习，一个学生问我怎么拼写“水虎鱼”。

Each type of piranhas module have waterproof and not waterproof types , each module is red , yellow , blue green color options .

每种型号的食人鱼模块都有防水少不防水类型，每种模块均有红、黄、白、蓝、绿颜色可供选择。

It is more likely , though , that piranhas will eat smaller fish or their own if desperately hungry .

但通常食人鱼在极度饥饿时会捕食更小的鱼类或者互相残杀。

So while piranha may not win your hearts with cuddly good looks , they are probably more victim than vicious .

食人鱼没有可爱的样貌来赢得你心，与此同时它们更有可能是受害者。

There are no piranha at sea .

海里面没有南美小鱼。

In 2010 , Piranha 3D was released , allowing for a new generation of audiences to be horrified by the fish .

2010年，影片《食人鱼3D》上映，让新一代的观众们也饱受食人鱼的惊吓。

Piranhas occasionally bite humans or other mammals when very hungry or threatened , but serious attacks are extremely rare .

但在饥饿或者受到威胁时，食人鱼偶尔会攻击人类或其他哺乳动物，但很少出现严重袭击事件。

U.K. tabloid the Sun proudly introduced its World Cup tipster -- Pele the Piranha - last week .

上周，英国小报《太阳报》（Sun）骄傲地推出了它的世界杯预测者――水虎鱼佩莱。

So it may surprise you to learn that piranhas are not the bloodthirsty killers portrayed in films .

所以当了解到食人鱼并非如电影里刻画的那样残忍嗜血时，你肯定会感到惊讶。

A man was attacked by a group of ferocious piranha fish in Liuzhou , Guangxi , Nanguo Morning Post reported .

《南国早报》报道，广西柳州一名男子遭到了一群凶猛的食人鱼攻击。

Piranhas , red fire ants and Emperor scorpions have been intercepted in mail parcels to Hawaii .

寄往夏威夷的邮包中曾截获出水虎鱼，红火蚁和帝王蝎。

The most well-known species is the red-bellied piranha , but there are nearly forty other different species of piranha .

最出名的种群莫过于红肚水虎鱼，不过水虎鱼的种类其实有大约四十种。

A man nearby fished a piranha . I rushed to see and made a few photos . I made a feature of its sharp teeth .

旁边的人碰巧拉上来一条，我赶紧跑过去照了几张照片，还特别给那锋利的牙齿来了一张特写。

According to a recent scientific study , despite their fearsome reputation , piranhas are wimps that gather in large groups to protect themselves from predators .

食人鱼历来以凶险著称，但最近的一期科学研究显示，其实食人鱼也是本性比较懦弱胆小，他们大批聚集在一起，主要是为了自我保护。

When a piranha 's tooth clamps against the outer shell , the stairway structures bend and rotate to absorb the force without breaking .

当水虎鱼牙齿钳住外面的壳时，楼梯似的结构就会弯曲、旋转，将撞击力吸收而且不会破损。