1、A new study finds there are more venomous fish than snakes.
一项新研究结果显示，世界上有毒的鱼类甚至比毒蛇还要多。
2、The 1,200 presumably venomous fish tallied in a new study is six times previous estimates. Fish with a biting bite outnumber all other venomous vertebrates combined, in fact.
一项最新的研究显示，有毒鱼类大约有1200种之多，这是此前人们估计的6倍。实际上，有毒鱼类的数量超过了其他所有有毒脊椎动物的总和。
3、"The results of this research were quite surprising," said researcher William Leo Smith of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
美国自然历史博物馆的研究员威廉·利奥·史密斯对此表示：“这项研究得到的结论非常让人吃惊。”
4、This might surprise you, too: More than 50,000 people are poisoned by fish bite s every year, Smith and his colleague said. Symptoms range from blisters to death.
史密斯和他的同事说，或许下面这个数据能让你同样感到震惊：每年，会有超过5万人因为这些有毒鱼类而发生中毒反应，其症状从发水泡到死亡不等。
5、Smith conducted the study along with Ward Wheeler, Curator in the Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology. The results are reported in the Journal of Heredity.
报道说，史密斯是与美国自然历史博物馆无脊椎动物馆的馆长沃德·惠勒一同负责此项研究的，他们的研究结果发表在《遗传杂志》上。
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