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6. Fish collectors pay from 19 cents for a guppy to $100 or more for hard-to-breed fish. They subscribe to such magazines as The Aquarium, and join clubs. They also spend more than a million dollars a year for fish, tanks, planes(应为plants), sand, shells, food and gadgets for heating and cleaning aquariums.
6、养鱼爱好者可以为虹鳉支付19美分，也可能为某种难以繁殖的鱼付一百多美元。他们订阅诸如“水族馆”这样的杂志，并且加入俱乐部。他们一年花费超过一百万美元，用于鱼、鱼缸、水草、沙子、贝壳、鱼食，以及用于加热和清洁鱼缸的器具。
7.Collecting tropical fish dates back to World War Ⅱ in this country. But raising of pet fish goes back to the early days of the Sung Dynasty in China, about 900 A.D., when they were raised in small bottles as house pets.
7、在(美国)这个国家里，收养热带鱼的习惯可以追溯到第二次世界大战。但是，人们饲养观赏鱼可以追溯到中国宋朝早期，大约公元900年左右。当时，观赏鱼作为家庭宠物饲养在小瓶子里。
8. They chose a small member of carp family, Carassius auratus, better known as the goldfish. From them they obtained different shaped and colored fish. There developed more than 100 beautiful kinds with such names as Falling Flowers, Seven Stars, Eight Melon Seeds, Piled-up-Gold, As Europeans began to go the Far East in numbers during the 17th century, it happened that they too grew to like the little carp. A jar-full of goldfish was then taken on a long sea trip back to London in 1665.By the late 18th century the fish were widely popular in England and soon the goldfish bowl was seen in many homes.
8、人们选择了鲤鱼族的一个小成员，CARASSIUSAURATUS,如同金鱼一样很早就被人所熟识了。从它开始，久而久之，人们获得了种种不同外形和色彩的观赏鱼。观赏鱼种类扩展到一百个美丽的品种，它们有的带着奇特的名字：落花、七星、八颗瓜子、黄金细毛等等。十七世纪，大批的欧洲人开始去远东，奇怪的是他们也开始喜欢这种小鲤鱼。于是在1665年，一个装满了金鱼的坛子经过漫长的海上旅行被带到伦敦。到18世纪晚期，在英国喂养这种金鱼已经很流行，在许多家庭都能看到金鱼碗。
9. In 1853 the world's first public aquarium- The Regent's Park Fish House- was opened. So far, home aquarium contained only goldfish or other local plant life. Then from the Amazon and the Congo, from Pacific Island and West Indian reefs, scientists began to send home hundreds of strange, beautiful fish. Many of them have become popular pets. They are called tropicals.
9、1853年，世界第一个公共水族馆：REGENT公园观赏鱼之家开放了。不过，到此时为止，家庭的水族馆仍然仅仅喂养金鱼和其它本地水生植物。之后，科学家们带给水族馆数以百计奇特而美丽的鱼，它们来自世界各地：从亚马孙河到刚果，从太平洋岛到西印度暗礁。它们之中的许多品种已经成为流行宠物。人们叫它热带鱼。
10. Today a busy aquarium store may sell up to $20,000 worth of fish in a good year. The most sold are still tropicals, especially guppies, swordtails and millies, which people like because of their bright colors and because they provide the tank with new young fish.
10、如今，一所兴旺的水族商店在好年份一年可以销掉价值两万美元的观赏鱼。大部分卖出的依然是热带鱼，尤其是虹鳉，剑尾鱼和米莉。人们喜欢这些鱼的明亮颜色，而且它们能给水族馆提供新的年轻的生命。
