Then it stops feeding, and its body changes into what is called a chrysalis.

然后幼虫就不吃东西了，身体变成了“茧”，英语是chrysalis。

For a long time, we couldn't see what was going on inside of a chrysalis.

在很长一段时间里，我们看不到蛹里面发生了什么。

This is the inside of a chrysalis.

这是蛹的内部。

My personality was entombed within a seemingly silent body, a vibrant mind hidden in plain sight within a chrysalis.

我的意识像是被埋葬在一个看起来寂静的身体里。活跃的内心被蛹束缚起来。

When the butterfly is ready to emerge, the chrysalis splits open, but the butterfly cannot fly yet.

蝴蝶准备破茧而出时，蛹就裂开，但这时蝴蝶不能飞。

The chrysalis hardens into a protective case, and over the next few weeks the caterpillar inside transforms into a butterfly!

这些茧变硬足以保护它们，在接下来几周，毛毛虫在里面变成了蝴蝶！

Now that the caterpillar is done becoming a completely new animal, the adult butterfly is ready to emerge from the chrysalis.

现在毛毛虫已经成为了一种全新的动物，成年蝴蝶已经准备好破茧了。

For instance, instead of hardening their skin into a protective chrysalis, moths do spin their metamorphic sleeping sack out of silk.

例如，飞蛾不是将皮肤硬化成保护性蛹，而是用丝纺出变质的睡袋。

And there's this really fat one that should be turning into a chrysalis soon.

有一个非常胖的，应该很快就变成蛹。

But to Scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.

但是，对于刚刚从寡妇蛰居中跑出来的思嘉来说，战争只不过是一个愉快和兴奋的时候而已。

So yeah, a chrysalis is not a silk sleeping bag that they spin and then crawl into.

是的，蛹不是一个丝绸睡袋，它们旋转然后爬进去。

I think it's amazing that a caterpillar can have an experience, go into its chrysalis, five weeks pass.

我认为毛毛虫能够在五周的时间里经历一次进入蛹的经历，这真是太神奇了。

MATTHEW COBB: He was definitely the first to do some very clear dissections of the chrysalis.

马修·科布：他绝对是第一个对蛹进行非常清晰的解剖的人。

So to recap, the caterpillar consumes, the chrysalis transforms and the butterfly pollinates.

回顾一下，毛虫进食，蛹转化，蝴蝶授粉。

What do you think happens inside the chrysalis?

莫莉：你认为蛹里面发生什么？

What I'm talking about is something called... ANDREI SOURAKOV: The chrysalis.

我所说的是一种叫做... ANDREI SOURAKOV： 蛹。

What if we rethought midlife, such that it's not a crisis, it's a chrysalis.

如果我们重新思考中年，让它不再是一场危机，而是一个蛹，怎样？

Once they are fully grown, the caterpillars will attach themselves to the underside of a leaf or branch and form a pupa, or chrysalis.

毛毛虫一旦完全长大，就附着在树叶或树枝的底部，然后形成蛹或者茧。

An insect lays an egg, which changes first into a grub or cater-pillar, then into a pupa or chrysalis, and lastly into an insect.

昆虫产卵, 然后孵化为幼虫或毛虫, 再变成蛹并最终生长为昆虫。

They are pupating into a chrysalis, and that's where a lot of changes really happen before they enter the adult stage as an adult butterfly.

它们正在化蛹成蛹，这就是在它们作为成年蝴蝶进入成年阶段之前真正发生许多变化的地方。