An insect lays an egg, which changes first into a grub or cater-pillar, then into a pupa or chrysalis, and lastly into an insect.

昆虫产卵, 然后孵化为幼虫或毛虫, 再变成蛹并最终生长为昆虫。

Out of each tiny egg there comes a small, soft creature, which looks somewhat like a little worm, and is known as a maggot, a grub, or a caterpillar.

每个细小的虫卵里出来的，都是软软的小动物，看上去像“小肉虫子”，英语的名字分别叫maggot, grub, caterpillar。

When at the end of a good twenty minutes the male did come bustling back with a grub, she snatched it from his beak, swallowed it whole, and before it was fairly down began to scold him like a fishwife.

整整 20 分钟后，公鱼真的带着一条蛴螬回来了，她从它的嘴里一把夺过它，把它整个吞了下去，还没等它完全消沉就开始像鱼婆一样责骂它。