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.

产出磅丝绸需要两千只蚕。

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

为今天的蚕被培育得更健壮了，其吐出的丝也就更粗。

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.

例如提供蚕丝的蚕、提供鲸脂的鲸、提供羊毛的羊。

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

她只过来跟我研究蚕的生命周期。

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

而且样做其实很容易，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，人们发现丝绸来自蚕而不树。

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

约翰·昆西·亚当斯的妻子路易莎养蚕，表示养虫子的有趣词汇。

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年来我们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.

为蚕柔弱的动物，必须像照顾焦躁不安的婴儿样。

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.

在该国肉和鱼很少的地区，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的作用机制。

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的蚕。

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

哦，我对蚕过敏，所以定不要点。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.

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

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

不过些蚕也不能生产出蛛丝，它们仅能生产出更好的蚕丝。