But what about pond scum, Neil?

但绿藻呢，尼尔？

I think I'm going to stop calling it pond scum and use the correct scientific name Prof Smith mentioned, organisms.

我想我不会再叫它绿藻了，我要用史密斯教授提到的正确学名：生物体。

Now, remember that little pond scum critter Tetrahymena?

现在， 还记得那个小池塘浮渣生物 Tetrahymena 吗？

Where you used to see pond scum, now think of hope.

过去看到池塘浮渣的地方，现在想到了希望。

Right, for the reducing of the pond scum?

因为他清除了池塘的水藻?

It's also been known as pond scum.

它也被称为池塘浮渣。

And when we removed our pond scum's telomerase, their telomeres ran down and they died.

当我们去除池塘浮渣的端粒酶时，它们的端粒就会流失并死亡。

So that's right, my career started with pond scum.

没错，我的职业生涯是从池塘浮渣开始的。

So it was thanks to their plentiful telomerase that our pond scum critters never got old.

因此， 正是由于它们丰富的端粒酶，我们的池塘浮渣生物才不会变老。

Pond scum is the slang name for microalgae - green plant organisms, such as spirulina, which grow in water - like ponds and look a bit slimy or scummy before being dried.

绿藻是微藻的俗名，微藻是一种绿色的植物生物体，比如螺旋藻，它生长在像池塘这样的水里，在晒干之前看起来有点黏糊糊的。