We ordered 6,500 silkworms from an online silk farm.

我们从线上蚕丝公司订了6,500只蚕。

It takes 2,000 silkworms to make a pound of silk.

产出一磅丝绸需要两千只蚕。

This is because today's silkworms have been bred to be stronger, producing thicker threads.

这因为今天蚕被培育得更健壮了，其吐出丝也就更粗。

So, no chicken feet or silkworms for you!

那么就不给您点鸡爪和蚕蛹了！

Silkworms for their silk, whales for their blubber, sheep for their wool.

例如提供蚕丝蚕、提供鲸脂鲸、提供羊毛羊。

She's just coming over to study the life cycle of silkworms.

她只跟我一研究蚕周期。

And it's actually pretty easy to do, because silkworms can be farmed in groups.

而且这样做其实很容易，因为蚕可以批量养殖。

In around 60 CE, it was discovered that silk came from silkworms and not trees.

大约在公元 60 年，人们发现丝绸自蚕而不树。

John Quincy Adams' wife Louisa practiced sericulture, which is a fun word for silkworm keeping.

约翰·昆西·亚当斯妻子路易莎养蚕，这一个表示养虫子有趣词汇。

The boys hurried to the silkworm house.

孩子们匆匆赶到蚕舍。

We've been using silkworm silk to make clothing and textiles for around 5, 000 years.

5000年我们一直在用蚕丝制作衣服和纺织品。

For silkworms are tender creatures, and must be cared for as though they were fretful babies.

因为蚕柔弱动物，必须像照顾焦躁不安婴儿一样。

Mother said that silkworms had even been known to go on hunger strikes.

母亲说，蚕甚至会绝食。

Grasshoppers, silkworms and wasps were traditionally eaten in areas of the country with little meat and fish.

在该国肉和鱼很少地区，传统上人们食用蚱蜢、蚕和黄蜂。

The team studied the mechanism of action in various species such as silkworms, nematodes, and fruit flies.

研究团队研究了在蚕、线虫和果蝇等多种物种中作用机制。

So far, researchers have created silkworms that carry the spider silk gene.

迄今，研究者已经培育出带有蛛丝基因蚕。

Well, I'm allergic to silkworm, so that's definitely out. And I'm not too keen on hot peppers or garlic.

哦，我对蚕敏，所以一定不要点。我不太爱吃辣椒和大蒜。

" Tino and I might raise silkworms and sell the cocoons, " said Mario.

“蒂诺和我可以养蚕，卖蚕茧，”马里奥说。

Sadly, no matter how much they work out, today silkworms can never revert to the trim of their ancestors.

遗憾，无论它们做多少锻炼，今天桑蚕也永远无法恢复到如它们祖先那般细若游丝身材了。

But the worms don't produce spider silk, either, just better silkworm silk.

不这些蚕也不能产出蛛丝，它们仅能产出更好蚕丝。