For many tardigrades, this requires that they go through something called a tun state.

对于许多缓步动物来说，这需要它们经历一种叫做 tun 的状态。

They can dry up into a lifeless ball in what scientists call a " tun" .

它们可以干涸成一个没有生命的球，科学家称之为“tun”。

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Scientists are now to trying to find out whether tardigrades use the tun state, their anti-drying technique, to survive other stresses.

科学家们现在正试图找出缓步动物是否使用 tun 状态，即它们的抗干燥技术，来应对其他压力。

" You may have a tun. It is from the cellars of the Good Masters of Astapor, and I have wagons full of it" .

" 你可以拿一桶。这是从阿斯塔波善主大人们的酒窖里取的，我装了好几马车。"

We had a charming time poking about the ruins, the vaults where the monster tun is, and the beautiful gardens made by the elector long ago for his English wife.

我们在废墟、怪物桶所在的拱顶以及选民很久以前为他的英国妻子建造的美丽花园中度过了愉快的时光。

It's thought that as water becomes scarce and tardigrades enter their tun state, they start synthesize special molecules, which fill the tardigrade's cells to replace lost water by forming a matrix.

人们认为，随着水变得稀少，水熊虫进入他们的 tun 状态，它们开始合成特殊的分子，这些分子填充水熊虫的细胞，通过形成基质来补充失去的水。

Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns.

当我在旁边时，他们也毫不犹豫地把他们喝的东西倒在一个容量超过三吨的容器里，至少有两个大桶。