1. The fish, which has since been sent to a museum where it is being examined by a scientist, is called an oarfish.
    此鱼叫桨鱼，被送进了博物馆，现正接受一位科学家的检查。

2. The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.
    这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或逆戟鲸，而是深受人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，只不过它们长得出奇地大，有时长达12英尺。

3. Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large:
    这些鱼能长得这么大是由3个因素造成的：

4. The expedition carried a little flour and sugar, but mostly they relied on the fish that Pinero caught with his harpoon and the game that was shot with bow and arrow, using the campfire to grill meat or cassava cakes.
    探险队在旅途中只带少量的面粉和糖，通常是德派因罗用渔叉叉鱼，用弓箭猎取野味，他们在篝火上烤肉吃，也做木薯饼。

5. The river swarmed with piranha, the flesh-eating fish that hunted in packs and could easily strip a cow to its bare bones within a minute.
    河里到处都是食肉鱼，这种食肉鱼成群结队觅食，不到一分钟就能把一头牛吃得只剩下一副骨架。

6. The fish are dying because of the chemicals from farms and factories.
    由于农场和工厂排放的化学物质，鱼儿正在死亡。

7. They fish for food and for sport.
    他们钓鱼不仅是为了美食，而且还是为了消遣。

8. The best sources of iron, and the only sources of the form of iron most readily absorbed by the body, are meat, chicken, and fish.
    最好的铁离子来源，以及惟一最易为身体所吸收的铁离子来源，是肉、鸡和鱼。

9. Thus, a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker became a "sick" patient undergoing surgery; boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like
    因此，在《当铺老板》中，一个坏闹钟变成了正在接受手术的"病人"；在《淘金记》中，靴子被煮熟，靴底蘸着盐和胡椒被吃掉，就像上好的鱼片（鞋钉就像鱼骨那样被剔除）。

10. Now, 500 years later, excessive fishing has reduced the number of fish to dangerously low levels.
    500年以后的今天，过度捕捞已使鱼的数量减少到危险的程度。