The slivery trail is slime.

这条银白色的痕迹是黏液。

Do you think of algae as gloopy green slime?

你觉得海藻像是粘稠的绿色黏液吗？

It was like coming out of slime on to rock—we were worried but not soiled.

这就像走出烂泥地，来到了石岩上——我们还会忧虑，但已不怕被弄脏。

We won't know whether such "biosignatures" are an indication of slime or civilization.

我们将不会知道那样的“生命信号”所预示的究竟是一堆烂泥还是一种文明。

A walking stick dipped in the glowing slime of a jellyfish, he observed, "will light the way like a torch".

手仗放入这些水母做成的黏液中进行浸泡，他观察到这样就可以“像手电筒一样照亮道路”。

The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime—it makes no difference to its beauty or ugliness.

罐子可能是空的，也可能被蜘蛛租住，也可能装满了蜂蜜或恶臭的黏液，这对它的美丽或丑陋都没有影响。

The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime—it makes no difference to its beauty or ugliness.

罐子可能是空的，也可能被蜘蛛租住，也可能装满了蜂蜜或恶臭的黏液，这对它的美丽或丑陋都没有影响。

The pond was full of mud and green slime.

池子里满是淤泥和绿色的污水。

He swam down and retrieved his glasses from the muck and slime at the bottom of the pond.

他潜下水去，从池塘底部的烂泥污物中找回了眼镜。

The slime layer consists of one aerobic and one anaerobic sublayer.

粘膜层由好气分层和厌气分层所组成。

The slime helps the snail slide along.

黏液有助于蜗牛滑行。

They are the slime molds.

他们就是黏菌（slime molds）。

Not hell but earth. He was spawned in that slime.

不是地狱，而是土地。他在软泥中出生。

Eventually, acellular slime molds also make spores.

最终，非细胞黏菌也会产生孢子。

There's even a variety that subsists on the slime left by snails.

有一个金龟变种甚至靠蜗牛留下的粘液来生存。

Soon he had the slime up to his calves and water above his knees.

不久淤泥深到腿的一半，而水则过了膝头。

After four hours, the slime mold was feasting on both blocks of food.

四小时后，黏菌已经在尽情享用食物了。

Dictyostelium belongs to one of the two great branches of slime molds.

盘基网柄菌属于黏菌两个大型分支当中的一个。

Building networks sometimes requires tough decisions from slime molds.

建立网络有时需要黏菌做出艰难的决定。

Other studies have shown that the slime mold lineage is immensely old.

其他的研究显示黏菌家族相当古老。

Again and again, the bacterial colonies oozed slime in response to ammonia.

反复数次，作为对氨的回应，细菌菌落总是会产生渗出粘液。

Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered this slime.

冉阿让感到沟道在脚下陷落了，他踏进了泥浆。

He also speculates that slime could protect bacteria from high levels of toxic gas.

他同时猜测粘液能够保护细菌免受有毒气体的侵害。

Nevertheless it was like coming out of slime on to rock — we were worried but not soiled.

不过，这就像走出烂泥地，来到了石岩上- - -我们还会担心，但已不怕弄脏。

Besides, we won't know whether such "biosignatures" are an indication of slime or civilization.

另外，我们将不会知道那样的“生命信号”所预示的究竟是一堆烂泥还是一种文明。

The Clownfish may look pretty with its bright orange and white stripes, but it’s covered in slime.

橙白色相间的条纹使得小丑鱼看起来相当漂亮，但它们的身体表面其实还覆盖着一层粘液。

Finding new species of slime molds will let scientists test these possibilities, Dr. Baldauf said.

新黏菌品种的发现将给科学家提供机会验证这些可能性，巴尔道夫博士说。

But then an article on the Guardian's News Blog seemed to pour cold green slime over the whole story.

但是随后卫报新闻博客上的一篇文章似乎对这件事破冷水。

Slime molds then devour many of the bacteria, releasing their nutrients for other organisms to grow on.

黏菌随后会吞食掉许多细菌，释放出他们的营养物质供其他有机体生长。

Despite their name, slime molds are not related to bread mold or the black mold that grows in damp houses.

尽管有着霉菌一样的名字，黏菌可跟面包的霉点或者长在阴暗潮湿的房子里的黑色霉菌没关系。