This rapid reset of the rod cells means they're less sensitive to light.

这种视杆细胞的快速重新启动会造成对光不是那么敏感。

But it turns out bicarbonate also tweaks the activity of rod cells in your retina.

但是研究显示重碳酸盐也能调整视网膜中视杆细胞的活性。

The rest of the eye has more rod cells.

眼睛的其余部分有更多的杆状细胞。

In everyday vision, photons flood your rod cells, setting off a chemical cascade that eventually translates into an electrical message about what you saw.

在每天的用眼中，充斥着视杆细胞的光子引发的一种化学级联反应最终能把你所看到的转化成电信号信息。

This combination of huge retinas, with a  high density of light-sensitive rod cells, and telephoto-like lenses, gives them great  acuity in near-pitch dark environments.

巨大的视网膜、高密度的感光杆状细胞和类似长焦的透镜的这种组合，使它们在近距离的黑暗环境中具有极强的敏锐度。

Whereas our normal, bright-light photopic vision is produced by three types of color-sensitive cone cells, dark scotopic vision is produced by the eye's rod cells, which are great at sensing something's brightness, but can't discriminate different colors.

我们正常的亮光视觉是由三种对颜色敏感的视锥细胞产生的，而暗视觉是由眼睛的杆状细胞产生的，它们非常擅长感知事物的亮度，但不能区分不同的颜色。