Remember how I told you your ideas are kind of like fireflies?

还记得我说过你的想法有点像萤火虫吗？

Oddly enough, you can catch your ideas with the very same device I used to catch fireflies when I was a boy.

奇怪的是，你可以用我小时候用来捉萤火虫的装置来捕捉你的想法。

Fireflies and some fish have the power to manufacture their own light, but the process seems to consume a large amount of energy.

萤火虫和某些鱼类可以用自己的能量自身产生光，但这个过程似乎会消耗大量的能量。

You could look for fireflies now and report your findings, but chances are slim that any will still be present at this time of year.

你现在可以寻找荧火虫，报告你的发现，但在每年的这个时候还能看到它们机会是非常小的。

They took genes from fireflies and bioluminescent marine bacteria and modified them that can be easily added to other organisms to make them glow.

他们从萤火虫和海洋荧光细菌中提取基因，并对它们进行了修改，可以很容易地添加到其他生物体中，使它们发光。