The pointed end is its head.

这就是蚓的头。

The earth-worm's body is very elastic.

蚓的身体非常灵活。

Its body is composed of more than one hundred rings, all joined together.

蚓的身体由一百多个彼此相连的环节组成。

Its thirst assuaged, the Worm slithered aside, and vanished into a hole in the ground.

蚓的焦渴得到了缓解，慢慢地爬动到一旁，钻进一个地洞不见了。

Unlike other usual North American earthworms, these highly active worms eat large amounts of humus.

与其他常见的蚓不同，这些高度活跃的蚓吃大量腐殖质。

He fills his billiard room with earthworms in pots, with glass covers.

他在台球室里放了 玻璃罩罐子里的蚓。

America during the last Ice Age, it was probably a savanna, with its own set of native earthworms.

当地可能就是莽原，还有原生种的蚓。

And, as if in a trance, hundreds of earthworms begin emerging from the soil.

如同中了迷幻魔法一样，成百上千的蚓从土壤中冒出来。

And unlike common earthworms, the Mongolian death worm has a thick body which pulsates as it moves, egh.

与普通的蚓不一样，蒙古死亡蠕虫有着会随着移动而有规律收缩的粗大身体。

Dried worm salt. It's supposed to be good for you.

那里面有很多药材和晒干的蚓。

" A yellow earthworm. And other terrible names."

“一条黄色的蚓。还有其他可怕的名字。”

For over a century, humans in the southern US, the UK, and elsewhere have been unknowingly exploiting the worm's escape response.

一个多世纪以来，国南部、英国和其他地方的人类一直在不知不觉地利用这种蚓的逃跑反应。

The earthworm beckons to the nearsighted bird.The early bird nearly always catches the earthworm.

• 蚓向近视的鸟儿招手。早起的鸟儿几乎总能捉到蚓。

" That's good, " explained Luke. " Earthworms like it cool and wet."

“那就好。”卢克解释道。 “蚓喜欢阴凉潮湿的地方。”

First, Luke showed the class a creepy earthworm he dug up.

首先，卢克向全班同学展示了他挖出的一条令人毛骨悚然的蚓。

Outside the locked garden, he even showed her a pile of loose earth wriggly with tasty worms.

在那片锁着的花园外面，他还给她看了一堆松软的土地，里面蠕动着味的蚓。

The current world record for " most worms charmed" was set by a 10-year-old British girl in 2009.

当前 “召唤最多蚓” 的世界纪录是由一名 10 岁的英国女孩在 2009 年创造的。

Have you ever seen the " worm-casts, " or little curly heaps of fine mould which the earth-worm leaves behind it?

你有没有看到过“蚓粪便”, 也就是蚓排出的卷曲状小块烂泥?

Other men might speak on the place of the Earthworm in Nature, and no one cared two hoots either about Nature or earthworms.

其他人可能会谈论蚓在自然界中的位置，但没有人会在意自然界或蚓的两声。

You can find confident assertions that the number of described earthworm species is 4,000 and equally confident assertions that the figure is 12,000.

你可以找到很有把握的断言称已被描述过的蚓是4000种，也可以找到同样很有把握的断言说是12000种。