2017考研英語閱讀精選：深海生物現身日本港口

考研英語來源：新東方網整理 2016-01-07　

Creature from the deep surfaces in Japanese harbor

深海生物現身日本港口

It isn’t every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a giant squid.

并不是每天都有來自深海神秘生物游弋到淺海，但平安夜晚上，許多游客在日本中部富山灣的一個港口看到了難得一遇的巨型烏賊。

The creature swam under fishing boats and close to the surface of Toyama Bay, better known for its firefly squid, and reportedly hung around the bay for several hours before it was ushered back to open water.

這條烏賊浮在漁船下面，游到了富山灣的水面上，據稱它在水中逗留了數小時之后才被引回開闊水域。富山灣比較出名的則是螢火烏賊。

It was captured on video by a submersible camera, and even joined by a diver, Akinobu Kimura, owner of Diving Shop Kaiyu, who swam in close proximity to the red-and-white real-life sea monster.

巨型烏賊被水下攝像機拍攝，甚至還有一名潛水店的老板Akinobu Kimura潛入水中，近距離觀察這條活生生、紅白相間的海怪。

"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it," he told CNN.

Akinobu Kimura告訴CNN記者：“我的好奇心戰勝了膽怯，因此跳入水中去接近它。”

"This squid was not damaged and looked lively, spurting ink and trying to entangle his tentacles around me. I guided the squid toward to the ocean, several hundred meters from the area it was found in, and it disappeared into the deep sea."

“這條烏賊并沒有攻擊性，看起來很健康，它噴出墨汁還試圖用觸角纏繞我，之后我引導它游向開闊的水域，它在離被發現地點幾百米的地方消失在了深海中。”

Yuki Ikushi, the curator of Uozu Aquarium in Uozu, Toyama, told CNN that there were 16 reports of Architeuthis squid trapped by fishing nets last season, and this one is the first sighting this season, which runs from November to March.

富山市魚津水族館的館長Yuki Ikushi告訴CNN稱，上個捕魚期有16起漁網捕獲大王烏賊的報道，這是本魚期內第一次見到巨型烏賊，當地的魚期從11月一直持續到來年3月。

"We might see more in this season, but it’s very rare for them to be found swimming around (the fishing boats’) moorings."

“以后還可能見到更多巨型烏賊，但主動游到漁船停泊港口的并不多見。”

The Toyama squid is a fairly small example of the species, estimated at around 3.7 meters (12.1 feet) long, and may be a juvenile. Giant squid are thought to grow as large as 13 meters (43 feet) long. They typically inhabit deep waters, and it is unclear why this one wandered into the bay.

富山烏賊是眾多巨型烏賊種類中的一小類，這條烏賊體長大約3.7米(12.1英尺)，可能還處于成長期。巨型烏賊最長可達13米(43英尺)，通常生活在深海中，目前還不清楚它游到淺灣中的原因。

Sightings of giant squid are extremely rare, and indeed for hundreds of years they were considered no more than a myth. The species was likely the inspiration for the mythological Kraken sea monster, a northern European legend popularized in an eponymous poem by Alfred Tennyson, and the Scylla of Greek mythology.

巨型烏賊十分罕見，數百年來被認為是虛構的。它們很有可能是挪威神話中海怪“克拉肯”的原型，阿爾弗雷德·丁尼生的同名詩歌中也經常出現這一北歐神話，同時希臘神話中的“斯庫拉”也有可能是巨型烏賊。