The bream were on the bed and the weather was exactly right.

鲷鱼在床上， 天气正好。

He knew where the bream were biting and we had had no luck for weeks.

他知道鲷鱼在哪， 我们好几个星期都没有运气。

" I'll bring you a mess of bream one day, " he said.

“有天我会给你带来大堆鲷鱼，”他说。

It always starts with one bream who, eyes  pointing downward, notices a suspicious dimple in the sand.

它总是从只鳊鱼开始，它眼睛向下，注意到沙子上有个可疑酒窝。

Yeah. So, we've got some whole sea bream like you get from the supermarket. They've been scaled and scored, we're gonna season them up, olive oil, salt and put them on the grill.

是。我们准备了些从超市买来整条鲷鱼。它们已经被刮鳞、切过了，我们要给它们调味，用橄榄油，盐，然后放在烤架上。

SABRINA IMBLER: The scientists marveled at  the bream's collective action, approaching and mobbing a predator such as a sand striker invites  real danger: losing a fin, a patch of scales, even dying.

萨布丽娜·因布勒：科学家们对鳊鱼集体行动感到惊讶，它们接近并围攻沙鳊这样捕食者会带来真正危险：失去、鳞，甚至死亡。

While his peers might have been trying their luck with a potential squeeze in the dark corner of a parquet-floored hall, he was sitting under the moonlight with a rod, eager to catch a handsome carp, perch or bream.

当他同龄们或许在镶木地板大厅角落试图与潜在伴侣交流时，他却坐在月光下，手握钓竿，渴望捕捉条漂亮鲤鱼、鲈鱼或鳊鱼。

SABRINA IMBLER: When the scientists published the paper on the monocle bream, they called  their behavior " novel." And it was, in the sense that humans had never observed it before, but had we even thought to look?

SABRINA IBLER：当科学家发表有关单眼鲷论文时，他们称其行为“新颖”。从某种意义上说，类以前从未观察到过它，但我们有没有想过去看看？

Mama was a much better seamstress than I--But if the Lord sends forth a strangely agreeable slave to the sewing machine, surely it is pleasanter and more profitable to spend one's time on the lovely lake, dangling a bamboo pole for bream.

妈妈是个比我好得多女裁缝——但如果上帝派出个出奇地讨喜欢缝纫机奴隶，那么在美丽湖上消磨时光，悬垂竹竿钓鲷鱼，肯定会更愉快，也更有利可图。