He saw fireflies flying and an idea came into his mind.

他看到萤火虫在飞，于是一个想法出现在他的脑海里。

He caught some fireflies in a cloth bag and hung it up as a lamp.

他抓了一些萤火虫放在一个布袋里，把它挂起来当灯。

Fireflies use their light for attracting mates.

萤火虫用它们的光来吸引配偶。

Remember how I told you your ideas are kind of like fireflies?

还记得我说过你的想法有点像萤火虫吗？

Oddly enough, you can catch your ideas with the very same device I used to catch fireflies when I was a boy.

奇怪的是，你可以用我小时候用来捉萤火虫的装置来捕捉你的想法。

Fireflies and some fish have the power to manufacture their own light, but the process seems to consume a large amount of energy.

萤火虫和某些鱼类可以用自己的能量自身产生光，但这个过程似乎会消耗大量的能量。

You could look for fireflies now and report your findings, but chances are slim that any will still be present at this time of year.

你现在可以寻找荧火虫，报告你的发现，但在每年的这个时候还能看到它们机会是非常小的。

They took genes from fireflies and bioluminescent marine bacteria and modified them that can be easily added to other organisms to make them glow.

他们从萤火虫和海洋荧光细菌中提取基因，并对它们进行了修改，可以很容易地添加到其他生物体中，使它们发光。

Fireflies give off flashes of light when they fly at night.

萤火虫夜间飞行时发出闪光。

Fireflies sparkle in the gloom.

萤火虫在黑暗中闪闪发光。

Are fireflies disappearing?

荧火虫正在消失吗？

the stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

群星不会因为像萤火虫而怯于出现。

But male fireflies beware: not all female fireflies deserve glowingreviews.

但雄性萤火虫必须意识到，并非所有雌性都值得它们如此“费心”，也许还会因此送命。

Fireflies have dedicated light organs that are located under their abdomens.

在萤火虫腹部下面有专门发光的器官。

The sky had gone dark, and cozily lighted storefronts beckoned like fireflies.

天色已晚，临街店面慵懒的路灯像一只只萤火虫。

Remember how I told you your ideas are kind of like fireflies? They flitter about.

还记得我告诉过你么，你的想法像一种萤火虫？他们翩翩起舞。

These are bioluminescent chromatophores, and they glow in the dark like fireflies.

这些是荧光的色素细胞，它们在黑暗中像萤火虫一样发光。

Just because life is as short as the fireflies, human must cherish lives themselves.

惟其人生如流萤般的短促，人类才更加珍惜生命自身。

Each blinking pattern is an optical signal that helps fireflies find potential mates.

每一个闪烁模式都是帮助萤火虫发现潜在配偶的光信号。

It walked upright and carried an old-fashioned miner's lantern filled with fireflies.

它直立行走，提着一个装有萤火虫的老式矿工灯笼。

Like fireflies, they too rely on a cofactor, in this case calcium ions rather than magnesium.

例如萤火虫，它主要是依赖于镁离子这种辅助因子，而水母则依赖于钙离子。

The cloning of luciferase from fireflies, which also took place in 1985, proved just as useful.

同年，克隆荧火虫的荧光素酶也取得成功，这个非常有用。

So many of them seek this refuge that the glowing tips of their cigarettes appear like fireflies.

由于寻求这种慰籍的人太多，他们烧红的烟头看起来就像萤火虫一样。

Maybe it's sipping lemonade on the patio before work or catching fireflies with your kids after dinner.

也许你可以在工作前到露台上喝杯柠檬水，或者，在晚饭后陪孩子一起去抓萤火虫。

But they insist fireflies are a "canary in a coal mine" in terms of understanding the health of an ecosystem.

但是他们坚持萤火虫是评估生态系统健康程度的警报器。

Just a few more minutes of catching fireflies on a lazy summer evening. So what if that certain TV show was on?

要是再多一会儿，和孩子们在夏日慵懒的晚上一快捉萤火虫，即便那定时要收看的电视节目已经上映了又何妨？

Fireflies are winged beetles and give off a green luminous glow from chemicals in their lower abdomen at night.

萤火虫属于有翼甲虫类，在晚上它们通过腹部的化学物质放出绿色光亮。

Everyone knows how fireflies got their name, but many people don't know how the insects produce their signature glow.

每个人都知道萤火虫名字的由来，然而很多人却萤火虫是如何发出它们标志性的闪光的。

Fireflies are familiar, but few realize that these insects are actually beetles, nocturnal members of the family Lampyridae.

萤火虫大家都熟悉，但鲜有人知道这些昆虫其实属于甲虫，萤科家族的夜猫子。