Have you ever eaten the plaice?

你有没有吃过欧鲽鱼?

Then you will be pleased to see how the plaice swims.

到时候, 你就会看到欧鲽鱼那令人发笑的泳姿。

This order contains four families. Examples: flatfish such as sole, turbot, dab, plaice, brill, etc.

这一目共有四科。类型是：蝶鱼、比目鱼、鞋底鱼、大比目鱼。

The plaice spawns or lays its thousands of little eggs in the sea water in the month of March.

三月, 欧鲽鱼就会在海水产卵。

In large towns there are many fried-fish shops, where the plaice is cut into slices and fried in dripping or oil.

很多大城镇里有鱼店, 人们将欧鲽鱼切成片, 放入油生煎。

It is very hard to see the plaice as it lies on the sand or mud with its dark and spotted side upwards.

我们很难看到欧鲽鱼的身影, 因为它总是躺在沙地或淤泥之, 将带有斑点的深色一面朝上。

This is just what the plaice likes: it does not want the big fishes to see it; because, if they did, they would soon catch and eat it.

它可不希望那些大鱼发现自己, 否则它将很快小命难保了。

Plaice feed chiefly at night, when they swim about near the bottom of the shallow bays in which they live, devouring any shell-fish or star-fish that they may find.

欧鲽鱼生活在浅湾的水底, 到了夜间, 它们会四处觅食, 将能够找到的贝类或海星全部一吞而下。

Most people make the mistake of thinking that the dark-brown side of the plaice, with its yellow or red spots, is the back of the fish, and that the white or under side is its belly.

很多人会错误地以为, 带有黄色或红色斑点的深棕色那一侧是比目鱼的背部, 而白色或下方一侧才是它的腹部。

He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel.

他吃了海星和长嘴鱼、螃蟹和鲽鱼、鲽鱼和鲮鱼、鳐鱼和他的伴侣、鲭鱼和梭梭鱼， 还有那条真正扭来扭去的鳗鱼。

Perhaps the lesser number of teeth in the proportion of four to seven in the upper halves of the two jaws of the plaice, to twenty-five to thirty in the lower halves, may likewise be accounted for by disuse.

。 鲽鱼两颚上半部的牙齿数量较少， 为 4 到 7 颗，而下半部的牙齿数量为 25 到 30 颗， 同样可以用废弃来解释。