But what about pond scum, Neil?

但绿藻呢，尼尔？

I think I'm going to stop calling it pond scum and use the correct scientific name Prof Smith mentioned, organisms.

我想我不会再叫它绿藻了，我要用史密斯教授提到的正确学名：生物体。

Now, remember that little pond scum critter Tetrahymena?

现在， 还记得那个小池塘浮渣生物 Tetrahymena 吗？

Where you used to see pond scum, now think of hope.

过去看到池塘浮渣的地方，现在想到了希望。

It's also been known as pond scum.

它也被称为池塘浮渣。

Right, for the reducing of the pond scum?

因为他清除了池塘的水藻?

So that's right, my career started with pond scum.

没错，我的职业生涯是从池塘浮渣开始的。

And when we removed our pond scum's telomerase, their telomeres ran down and they died.

当我们去除池塘浮渣的端粒酶时，它们的端粒就会流失并死亡。

So it was thanks to their plentiful telomerase that our pond scum critters never got old.

因此， 正是由于它们丰富的端粒酶，我们的池塘浮渣生物才不会变老。

Today's programme was all about microalgae like spirulina, a green, edible food algae which some people call pond scum, although scientifically speaking it's an organism, meaning an animal or plant life form.

今天的节目都是关于微藻，比如螺旋藻这种绿色的可食用藻类，有些人称之为绿藻，尽管从科学上讲它是一种生物体，意思是一种动物或植物的生命形式。