Mommy, do fish sleep?
Do they eat breakfast,
lunch and dinner
like me?
[妈妈。鱼儿们睡觉嘛?它们会像我一样吃早饭,吃午饭,吃晚饭嘛?]
Do they go to school?
Go to the swimming pool,
and do they have to take a bath before
they go to sleep at night?
[它们去学校,去游泳池,睡前要洗澡澡嘛?]
Mommy, do fish sleep?
Do they play games
and go to the movies with their friends?
[妈妈,鱼儿们睡觉嘛?它们会跟朋友们玩儿游戏看电影嘛?]
Do they take a nap,
eat a snack,
run up and down
the stairs, like I do?
[它们会不会像我一样打个盹儿,偷吃点儿零食,在楼梯上跑上跑下呐?]
Mommy, do fish sleep?
Do they let their balloons fly up into the air,
brush their teeth
and comb their hair,
like I have to do?
[妈妈,鱼儿们睡觉嘛?它们会像我一样放飞气球,刷牙梳头发嘛?]
Mommy, do fish sleep?
Do they color pictures
and draw them too?
[妈妈,鱼儿们睡觉嘛?它们会画画完了涂上美丽的颜色嘛?]
Do they add two plus two,
hug each other
like me and you?
[它们知不知道2+2等于多少,会不会跟咱俩一样抱抱呢?]
Mommy, do fish sleep?
Do their mommies tuck them in
like you do to me?
[妈妈,鱼儿们睡觉嘛?它们的妈妈会不会像你一样紧紧抱着我呐?]
Do they read them a story
every night, like you do?
[它们妈妈会不会像你一样每天给我讲睡前故事呢?]
And Mommy, if they do,
Do little angels dance around their heads,
like you say they do to me,
when you peek in
to make sure,
that I am sound asleep?
[妈妈,如果它们是这样,那么小天使会不会也在它们头顶上围着圈圈跳舞呢?就像你说的,如果我乖乖的睡得很熟小天使会来跳舞一样?]
[我要吐个槽。。。。今儿去借书。完了是个老奶奶给我刷卡的。看了看书名,还来了一句:grade one kids will ask this question..................完了我就跟她说,我其实已经二年级了。TT。。]
刚刚正好跟图书馆儿借来一本书。书名就叫做
《Do Fish Sleep》
想说给你翻来看看吧。【以下内容都是直接看着书翻译的。跟译者喜乐同学没有任何关系。PERIOD。图是我按照名字在google image里面搜索的。】
鱼类没有眼睑,所以它们完成不了闭眼睛这个简单的动作 [而闭眼睛这个能力呢是许多动物在睡觉的一个明显特征],但是其实几乎所有的鱼类都是会睡觉的呢。 他们每天或白天或晚上为了“省体力,省精力”而花费在休息上的时间虽然或许不是很准确,但是其实可以称之为“睡觉”啦。
对于所有的动物来说,类似睡眠的状态包括部分或者是完全丧失意识+身体各种功能变得缓慢——比如心率还有呼吸减缓啊,肌肉松弛啊什么的。正在睡觉的鱼儿们 相对来说不怎么运动,而且对于外界的刺激变得不是那么的敏感了。
夜间,鲱鱼[herring]
鲈鱼[bass]
岩鱼[rockfish]
岩礁鱼类 [reef fishes]
有些鹦嘴鱼[parrotfish]
有些种类的鲨鱼[shark]
鲦鱼呢[minnow]
金鳞鱼[squirrelfish] <竟然不是松鼠鱼....>
夜行性淡水鲶鱼[catfish]
斯坦福大学的Emmanuel Migngot跟Tohei Yokogawa研究水族馆里面的 斑马鱼[zebrafish] Danio rerio
所以这个问题就这么被我回答完了。
通过看这个书。我终于明白了这么多当时背的时候觉得一辈子都用不上的一堆GRE单词原来可以有用的!而且这一篇就有多少G的单词啊!
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