INSIDERTAKING INVENTORY: PHANTOM MEMBRANE
背包盘点：幻翼膜
The grimmest Minecraft item yet? Possibly!
Minecraft中最让人讨厌的物品? 有可能!
Hello there, little kitty! It’s so nice to see you again. You were out all night. Were you out hunting? Of course you were, and it looks like you’ve brought me a present. Wait... what even is this? It’s so beige and stringy... oh. Oh no. It’s our item of the week. It’s a phantom membrane. Thanks, kitty! Knew I should’ve gotten a dog.
你好，小猫咪。再次见到你真是太好了。你整夜都在外面吗？是出去狩猎了吗？肯定是的，而且看起来你还给我带了一份礼物。等下...这是个啥玩意儿？这个浅褐色有粘性的东西...哦。哦不。这是我们的本周物品。是一片幻翼膜。谢谢你，猫咪！早知道我就该养只狗的。
If the phantom membrane isn’t the ickiest item in Minecraft, then I don’t know what is. One of the game’s newer items, it was added in version 1.13 as a drop from the spooky, flying Overworld monsters called phantoms, which spawn and attack players that haven’t slept in several days.
如果说幻翼膜是 Minecraft 中第二令人讨厌的物品，我还真不知道有什么是最令人讨厌的。作为游戏中较新的物品之一，在1.13版本中，它是作为夜间飞行的恐怖怪物幻翼的掉落物加入到游戏中的。幻翼会在玩家几天未睡觉时生成并攻击他们。
There are two ways to get your hands on a phantom membrane, if for some strange reason that’s a thing you want to do. The first is to kill a phantom, though there’s no guarantee that every single phantom will drop one. If your sword tears the poor monster’s membrane to shreds, then it’s worthless. The other option is to get a cat. Phantoms do their best to stay away from cats, but very occasionally a cat will catch one and bring its owner the membrane as a gift.
有两种方法可以让你把幻翼膜搞到手，如果你出于某种奇怪的原因想这么做的话。第一种方法是杀死一只幻翼，虽说不能保证每只幻翼都会掉落幻翼膜。你的剑可能会将这种可怜的怪物的膜撕成碎片，破碎的膜就毫无价值了。另一种方法是养一只猫。虽然幻翼会尽力地远离猫，但极少数情况下猫会抓到一只幻翼，并把幻翼的膜作为一个礼物送给主人。
Now you’ve got a chest full of phantom membranes, what do you do with them? Well, you can either use them to brew potions of slow falling by combining it with an awkward potion in a brewing stand, or to repair a damaged elytra in an anvil. Either way, you’re avoiding future fall damage – which seems appropriate for a drop from a flying monster.
现在你得到了满满一箱子幻翼膜，你会怎么处理它们呢？嗯，你可以选择将它们在酿造台中与粗制的药水组合，酿造出缓降药水，或者在铁砧上修复受损的鞘翅。无论哪种使用方式，你都可以用来避免未来的摔落伤害 —— 作为一种飞翔怪物的掉落物，这似乎十分合适。
The closest thing in the real world to a phantom membrane is probably the wing of a bat. Bats, which are the only mammals that can fly, have a thin membrane called a “patagium” that grows between their bodies and their arms, creating a wing.
现实世界中与幻翼膜最接近的东西大概是蝙蝠翅膀。蝙蝠，是唯一能飞行的哺乳动物，在它们的身体与手臂之间生长了一层叫做 “翼膜”的薄膜，组合形成了翅膀。
Scientists, who clearly have too much time on their hands, have named each part of the patagium – the “propatagium” grows along the top of the wing, from the neck to the first finger. The “dactolopatagium” grows between the fingers. The “plagiopatagium” grows between the last finger and the legs, and the “uropatagium” grows between the two back legs. That last one, the uropatagium, is kind of special actually. It lets the bat steer itself in mid-air, and allows them to be much more manoeuvrable than birds are.
科学家们显然还是太闲了，已经为翼膜的每一个部分都取了名字 —— “propatagium” 是沿着翅膀的顶部生长，从颈部到第一根手指部分的膜。 “dactolopatagium” 是在手指之间生长的膜。“plagiopatagium” 是生长在最后一根手指到腿之间的膜，还有 “uropatagium”是生长在两条后腿之间的膜。最后一个，uropatagium，事实上它有点特殊。它可以让蝙蝠在空中转向，使得它们比鸟类更有机动性。
Bats aren’t the only real-world animals to have membranes like this – some other gliding mammals, flying lizards, flying frogs, dinosaurs and even birds have (or had) them.
在现实世界中，蝙蝠并不是唯一一个拥有这种膜的动物 —— 还有一些其他的可滑翔的哺乳动物，飞蜥、飞蛙、恐龙甚至鸟类(或许曾经)都有这样的膜。
But when it comes to Minecraft, only phantoms have membranes. So treasure every one that you find, and marvel at this spooky wonder of nature. Good kitty!
但是当膜走进了Minecraft，只有幻翼拥有膜。因此，珍惜你所找到的每一片幻翼膜，对大自然的鬼斧神工感到惊叹吧。真是一只乖喵喵！
【记得多吃🥕 译自官网 2019 年 08 月 02 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Phantom Membrane；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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