Portuguese man-of-war

基本解釋

Often mistaken for a jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war is actually made up of a colony of organisms working together.
它們常被誤認(rèn)為是水母，但事實(shí)上葡萄牙僧帽水母是有一群工作著的有機(jī)物質(zhì)組成的。
Far to the north, a much more menacing species looms – the Portuguese Man-of-War, a floating, violet-coloured sack with long tentacles.
在往北走，一種名字為“葡萄牙勇士”、更具有威脅性的水母品種悄然的出現(xiàn)了，通體紫色且有長的觸須。
The moon jellyfish are, in fact, just about everywhere, including Mexico, Alaska and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. They include the stinging Portuguese man-of-war.
事實(shí)上，月亮水母到處都是，墨西哥、阿拉斯加以及美國大西洋沿岸的各個(gè)地區(qū)都能發(fā)現(xiàn)它們的蹤跡，這其中還包括刺人的僧帽水母。

any of several large complex colonial hydrozoans of the genus Physalia, esp P. physalis, having an aerial float and long stinging tentacles: order Siphonophora (Sometimes shortened to man-of-war)