Or how to take the meat out of a snail shell?

是谁教会你们从螺壳里挖肉？

Now, the hearing function of the labyrinth is housed in the easy-to-spot structure that's shaped like a snail's shell, the cochlea.

迷宫的听觉功能被安置在形状像蜗牛壳的易于识别的结构中，耳蜗。

Even though they're quite large and powerful, with strong jaws that can crush beetles and snail shells, they still have quite a few predators.

尽管它们很大、很有力量，拥有能够咬烂甲虫和蜗牛壳的下巴，它们仍然有很多捕食者。

Dr. Dolittle and his friends climbed into the sea snail's shell.

杜立德博士和他的朋友们爬进了海螺的壳里。

Britain's queen has over the years received “pineapples, eggs, a box of snail shells, a grove of maple trees, a dozen tins of tuna and 7kg of prawns”.

英国的女皇在这些年居然收到了像“凤梨，鸡蛋，一箱蜗牛壳，一丛枫树，一打金枪鱼罐头和七千克的大虾”这样的礼物。

If you could unspool this little snail shell, and cut it in a cross-section, you'd see that the cochlea consists of three main chambers that run all the way through it, separated by sensitive membranes.

如果你能打开这个小蜗牛壳，并把它切成一个横截面，你会看到耳蜗由三个贯穿耳蜗的主要腔室组成，它们被敏感的膜隔开。

In the Franchthi Cave, there's a huge pile of snail shells, most of them are larger than current snails, suggesting that the people who ate them were selectively breeding them to be bigger and more nutritious.

在Franchthi Cave， 有一大堆蜗牛壳，其中大部分都比现在的蜗牛大，这表明食用它们的人有选择地将它们培育得更大更有营养。

Mad with desperation, Rebeca got up in the middle of the night and ate handfuls of earth in the garden with a suicidal drive, weeping with pain and fury, chewing tender earthworms and chipping her teeth on snail shells.

丽贝卡因绝望而发疯，半夜起床，带着自杀的冲动在花园里吃了一把泥土，痛苦而愤怒地哭泣，咀嚼嫩蚯蚓，用牙齿咬蜗牛壳。