【中英雙語閱讀】今日，中國科學家發現深水海兔。（關注本站，每天一篇英文簡報，了解世界，增進知識）

Discovery, a remote operated vehicle (ROV) aboard China's research vessel KEXUE (Science), captured two rare deep-water sea slugs in western Pacific Ocean in a recent dive.

中國科學號考察船上的發現號水下機器人最近在西太平洋發現了兩種罕見的深水海兔。

Sea slugs are hardly seen in deep-water (deeper than 200 meters), but Discovery gathered the two at the depth of 970 meters, according to Xu Kuidong, chief scientist aboard the vessel and a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

根據該船的首席科學家，中國科學院（CAS）的研究員徐奎東的說法，在深水（深度超過200米）內幾乎看不到海slu，但是發現者將這兩個海鷗聚集在970米深處

The two sea slugs, with white bodies and pairs of bronze tentacles on pink heads, are about 5 cm long and 2 cm wide in the ocean, but they curled up after being taken to the vessel.

兩個深水海兔，白色的身體和粉紅色的頭上有一對青銅觸手，長約5厘米，寬約2厘米，但是在被帶到船上后它們蜷縮起來。

With varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs, sea slugs actually belong to the family of snails, or marine gastropod mollusks, and have lost their shells over evolutionary time.

由于與陸地海兔不同，深水海兔實際上屬于蝸牛或海洋腹足類軟體動物的家族，并且在進化時期已經失去了它們的殼。

There are about 3,000 species of sea slugs in the world and most of them are found in shallow water of tropical zones.

世界上大約有3000種海兔，其中大部分是在熱帶地區的淺水中發現的。

Eight species were discovered in the deep-water of northeastern Pacific Ocean, and none has been reported in the deep-water of western Pacific Ocean before.

在東北太平洋深水區發現了8種，其次在西太平洋深水區沒有發現。

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