Have you ever eaten the plaice?

你有没有吃过欧?

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

到时候, 你就会看到欧那令泳姿。

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、比目、鞋底、大比目等。

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

三月, 欧就会在海水产卵。

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

很多大城镇里都有烤店, 们将欧切成片, 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.

我们很难看到欧身影, 因为它总是躺在沙地或淤泥之, 将带有斑点深色一面朝上。

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.

欧生活在浅湾水底, 到了夜间, 它们会四处觅食, 将能够找到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.

很多都会错误地以为, 带有黄色或红色斑点深棕色那一侧是比目背部, 而白色或下方一侧才是它腹部。

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、螃蟹和、和鲮、鳐和他伴侣、鲭和梭梭， 还有那条真正扭来扭去鳗。

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.

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