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The Many Eyes Of Scallops
“海底望远镜”：科学家发现扇贝有几百只眼
Scientists have discovered that the sea scallop has an incredibly complicated eyesight system.
科学家们发现,扇贝的视力系统非常复杂。
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
主持人LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO：
I bet you think scallops spend most of their time just chillaxing (ph) on the ocean floor, that is, before they appear on your plate drenched in butter. But scientists have discovered there’s a lot more going on with the bivalves than meets the eye. Actually, in the case of the scallops, it’s hundreds of eyes.
我敢打赌，你们认为扇贝的大部分时间都是懒洋洋的躺在海底，那是在它们被涂上黄油，出现在你的盘子里之前。但科学家们发现，扇贝这种双壳类动物远不止眼前看到的这样平淡无奇。事实上，扇贝有数百只眼睛。
The scallop, it turns out, has a complex ocular system arrayed across the front of its shell - teeny-tiny eyeballs perched at the end of thread-like tentacles. Each eye features two retinas and a miniature mirror that allow for both central and peripheral vision. Dr. Benjamin Palmer from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel told The New York Times that scallop eyes may inspire new inventions, noting that NASA built X-ray detectors to study black holes based on the eyes of lobsters. Who knew your seafood plate was so visionary?
据发现扇贝有着非常复杂的眼部系统，它们排列在壳的前部——丝状的触角末端长着一个个小小的眼球。每只眼睛都有两个视网膜和一个微型镜，可以同时看到中央和周围的视觉。来自以色列魏茨曼科学研究所的本杰明.帕尔默博士告诉《纽约时报》，它们的眼球可能给新发明带来启发。他指出美国国家航空航天局(NASA)基于龙虾的眼睛而创造出了x射线探测器去研究黑洞。谁知道，你的海鲜餐盘原来这么有远见呢。