The Secret Life of Plankton

浮游生物的秘密生活 - 蒂尔尼泰思 (Tierney Thys)

翻译人员: Li Huayang 校对人员: Sabrina Chen

（音乐）

[Stories from the Sea]

[海中传奇]

[Fish Tale My Secret Life as Plankton]

[鱼的自述： 我曾是浮游生物的秘密生活]

How did I get here?

我是怎么到这里的？

Well, it's a stranger story than you might think.

这故事可比你想像的要更奇怪

I came from a world of drifters,

我来自充满浮游流浪者的世界

a place few humans have ever seen.

一个少有人类见过的地方

The world of plankton.

——浮游生物的世界

I came from a batch of a million eggs, and only a few of us survived.

我从数以百万计的卵中孵出来

我们之中只有极少数存活下来

When I became a larva, I moved among other drifters.

当我孵化成幼体时

我和其他的浮游者一起活动

["Plankton" comes from the Greek "planktos" for wandering]

「浮游生物一词来自希腊文 planktos 即漫游之意」

My fellow plankton came in all sizes, from tiny algae and bacteria

我们浮游生物大小各不相同

从微小的藻类与细菌 到比蓝鲸更长的动物

to animals longer than a blue whale.

I shared my nursery with other embryos and juveniles,

我在托儿所的同学

还有蛤蜊、螃蟹和海胆、海葵的 胚胎和幼体

from clams and crabs to sea urchins and anemones.

（浮游生物杂音）

(High pitch sound)

We drifting animals are called zooplankton.

我们浮游的动物被称为 「浮游动物」 (zooplankton)

The most common animals here are copepods and krill.

这里最常见的动物

是桡足类 (copepod) 和磷虾 (krill)

(Buzzing)

You could search the world over,

您可以找遍世界各地

but you'd never find a place more diverse than my childhood home.

但你找不到比我童年家庭 更多样化的地方了

A teaspoon of seawater

一茶匙的海水

can contain more than a million living creatures.

可能包含一百万个以上小生物

It can be a pretty tough existence, though.

不过生活相当艰难

Trillions are born here, but only a few make it to adulthood.

虽然出生的数以兆计

但活到成年的只占少数

He may be no larger than a pin head,

它可能不比针头大

but this crab larva is an arrow worm's worst nightmare.

但这只蟹苗是箭头虫 (arrow worm) 最可怕的噩梦

(Bumping noises)

（浮游生物杂音）

(Buzzing)

Epic battles between carnivores like these are just one way to get food.

肉食动物之间的战斗 只是获得食物的方式之一

But the real powers of this place come from phytoplankton.

这个地方的真正能量来源是 「浮游植物」(phytoplankton)：

Single-celled life

它是能将阳光和二氧化碳转换为

that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide

into edible gold.

可食用的「金矿」的一种单细胞生物

Phytoplankton are the base for the largest food web in the world.

浮游植物是世界上 最大食物网的基础

During the night,

在夜间

many animals like me would rise up from the depths

许多像我这样的动物，从深处上升

to feed on this sun-powered feast.

饱餐一顿太阳能的盛宴

（浮游生物杂音）

(Maraca sound)

I was part of the largest daily migration of life on Earth.

我是地球上最大规模 日迁移生物的一部分

During the day,

到了白天

I'd return to the darkness, where I'd join my bizarre companions.

我回到黑暗，加入奇异的同伴中

(High pitch buzz)

(Flapping noises)

Cannibals, like this sea butterfly mollusk,

有些会同类相残，像这只 软体动物──海蝴蝶 (sea butterfly)

that eats its next of kin.

会吃掉它的近亲

And comb jellies,

栉水母 (comb jelly)

that beat cilia like rainbowed eyelashes.

有节奏地摆动着 像七彩睫毛的纤毛

Some of these snare their prey with sticky tentacles,

有的用黏糊糊的触手设下陷阱 来捕捉猎物

while others just take a bite out of their cousins.

有的则是一口咬掉堂兄弟

And siphonophores

管水母 (Siphonophorae) 是用

that catch prey with toxic fishing lures.

有毒的鱼饵捕捉猎物

But my favorite would have to be the crustacean Phronima.

我的最爱则是甲壳动物「巧戎」 (虫戎) (Phronima)

Its monstrous looks inspired the movie "Aliens."

可怕的长相启发了电影「异形」

It can catch tiny bits in its bristles,

它可以用短毛捕捉小东西

but prefers larger prey like salps.

但更喜欢樽海鞘 (salps) 这类更大的猎物

With two sets of eyes, this female prowls the deeper water.

它有两对眼睛 这只雌性在更深的水中觅食

Prey in hand,

她在用到手的猎物做着整个动物王国中 最奇怪的行为之一

she performs one of the strangest behaviors

in the entire animal kingdom.

With body parts from her victims,

就是用这个受害者的肢体

she delicately assembles a barrel-like home

巧妙组装成水桶状的家

feeding her young until they can drift off and survive on their own.

来喂养她的宝宝 直到它们可以漂走独立生存

Best of all, they make the perfect snack for a small fish like me.

最美妙的是，对我这样的小鱼而言 它们是完美的点心

Here among the plankton,

浮游生物之间的

the food web is so tangled and complex,

食物网太纠结复杂了

even scientists don't know who eats whom.

连科学家都不知道谁吃了谁

But I do.

但我知道

At least now you know a bit of my story.

至少你现在知道了一些我的故事

There's so much more to me than just a tasty meal.

我可不只是道美味的菜肴而已

撰稿： Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

导演： Noe Sardet & Sharif Mirshak, Parafilms

旁白： Kirk Lombard

动画： Noe Sardet