The fish, which is only prepared by licensed chefs, contains the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin.

这种鱼只能由有执照的厨师烹制， 含有神经毒素河豚毒素。

The tetrodotoxin found in fugu is more toxic than cyanide, and each year about 20 people are poisoned from badly prepared fish.

河豚体内的河豚毒素比氰化物毒性更强，每年有大约二十人死于食用未妥善处理好的河豚。

In 1980, a researcher named Wade Davis discovered that voodoo practitioners would often powder a neurotoxin found in pufferfish and other animals called tetrodotoxin.

1980 年， 一位名叫韦德·戴维斯 (Wade Davis) 的研究人员发现，施行伏都教的人经常会在河豚和其他动物身上发现一种名为河豚毒素的神经毒素粉末。

Researchers believe that narcisse was given a mixture of tetrodotoxin and bufotoxin, which put him in a coma and made it appear as if he was dead.

研究人员认为， 给水仙注射了河豚毒素和蟾蜍毒素的混合物，这让他陷入昏迷， 看起来就像死了一样。

Pufferfish are infamously poisonous and can be fatal to eat since they contain the toxin called tetrodotoxin, and ingesting an amount as small as only 21 milligrams could be enough to kill you.

河豚的毒性臭名昭著，食用它可能会有性命之忧，因为它们含有河豚毒素，仅摄入 21 毫克就足以致人死亡。