Certainly no creature in the sea is odder than the common sea cucumber.

没有哪种海洋生物比海深更独特。

Ooh! Heck yeah! Is that a sea cucumber? What is that?

哦！那是海参吗？那是什么？

When they're not defecating, sea cucumbers use their butts to absorb oxygen.

当海参不排便时，它们用屁股吸收氧气。

Consider this species of pearlfish that lives inside sea cucumbers and feeds on their guts.

例如这种隐鱼会住在海参里面，吃它们的内脏维生。

Our last story today involves the phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins.

今天节目的最后为你带来的是包括海星、海参及海胆在内的棘皮动物门。

A sea cucumber can reversibly alter the stiffness of its tissue to improve its load capacity.

海参可以可逆地改变其组织的硬度，以提高其承载能力。

The bird's nest soup was gentle and slithery, the sea cucumber rich and gelatinous and the fish sparklingly fresh and perfectly steamed.

燕窝汤柔和爽滑，海参浓郁弹牙，鱼肉晶莹鲜嫩，蒸得恰到好处。

At a meeting in Monterey, in September, he offered a preview. Sea cucumbers, normally pale and beige, rippled with waves of blue bioluminescence.

在九月蒙特雷的一次会议上，他播放了该视频。海洋海参类通常是浅色和浅棕色的，它们会微微泛起蓝色生物光。

I sent him to look for sea cucumbers.

我派他去找海参。

We also gathered in a few sea cucumbers, some pearl oysters, and a dozen small turtles that we saved for the ship's pantry.

我们又打了一些海参，产珍珠的牡蛎和一打左右的小鳖，这些都打来作为船上的食用品。

This group includes animals like starfishes, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.

该组包括海星、海蛇尾、海参和海胆等动物。

Several creatures, like sea cucumbers, navigate the deep sea with  specialized, bioluminescent cells.

一些生物，如海参，利用专门的生物发光细胞在深海中航行。

Sea cucumbers are found everywhere from shallow shores to abyssal trenches 6,000 meters below sea level.

从浅滩到海平面以下 6000 米的深海海沟，海参随处可见。

In this process, sea cucumbers clean and oxygenate the seafloor by breaking down detritus and recycling nutrients.

在这个过程中，海参通过分解碎屑和回收养分来清洁海底并充氧。

But the most spectacular thing about the sea cucumber is the way it defends itself.

但是海参最令人称奇的是其自我防卫方式。

All living creatures, especially human beings, have their peculiarities, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual.

所有生物，尤其是人类，都有其特别之处，但小小海参却没有一个地方使它看起来平常无奇。

For some fifty million years, despite all its eccentricities, the sea cucumber has lived on its diet of mud.

约5千万年以来，海参就这么古怪异常，尤其一直以泥土为生这一项。

Bajau divers may spend as much as 60 percent of their workday under the surface, spearing fish and harvesting sea cucumbers.

巴瑶族潜水员每天可能将多达 60% 的工作时间花在水下，用鱼叉捕鱼和收获海参。

Sea cucumber excretions can also aid in coral formation and may play a role in buffering marine environments from ocean acidification.

海参的排泄物也有助于珊瑚的形成，并可能在缓冲海洋环境免受海洋酸化影响方面发挥作用。

However, it seems that not all sea cucumbers put up with this intrusive behavior.

然而，似乎并不是所有的海参都能忍受这种侵入性行为。