reefs
英[riːfs]
美[riːfs]
- n. 礁石(reef 的复数形式);礁体;群礁
- v. 收帆;降低桅杆;把(伞)收拢(reef 的第三人称单数形式)
双语例句
- 1. Oil pollution could damage the fragile ecology of the coral reefs.
- 石油污染可能破坏珊瑚礁脆弱的生态环境。
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- 2. Oil spills are having a devastating effect on coral reefs in the ocean.
- 海上溢油对海洋里的珊瑚礁有着毁灭性影响。
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- 3. All over the world, coral reefs are dying.
- 全世界的珊瑚礁都在消亡。
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- 4. The pilot guided us through the dangerous reefs.
- 这位引航员引导我们通过了危险的暗礁区。
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- 5. This of course has beneficial results for the nearby coral reefs.
- 这当然对附近的珊瑚礁有益。
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- 6. Now, in small numbers, the starfish don't affect coral reefs dramatically.
- 现在,海星数量很少,对珊瑚礁的影响也不大。
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- 7. Both of these grow in coastal waters, often in the vicinity of coral reefs.
- 这两种植物都生长在沿海水域,且通常生长在珊瑚礁附近。
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- 8. There are almost always pockets of coral on the reefs that remain unaffected.
- 珊瑚礁上几乎总有一些珊瑚没有受到影响。
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- 9. I'm helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs.
- 我正在帮助研究珊瑚和生活在珊瑚礁周围的鱼类。
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- 10. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is polluted, the coral will die.
- 这里的珊瑚礁是美丽的,但是如果海水被污染,珊瑚就会死亡。
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- 11. The Cot starfish is found on coral reefs in the tropical Pacific Ocean and it eats coral.
- 刺冠海星生活在热带太平洋的珊瑚礁上,以珊瑚为食。
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- 12. Luckily, the CoT starfish population gradually declined on its own and the reefs recovered.
- 幸运的是,刺冠海星的数量渐渐地自发减少了,珊瑚礁也恢复了。
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- 13. See, when coral reefs experience bleaching, it's rarely a case of the whole reef being affected.
- 你看,当珊瑚礁经历白化时,整个珊瑚礁群受到的影响是很小的。
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- 14. There are quiet islands, warm, clear water, a huge amount of reefs and a variety of marine life.
- 这里有安静的岛屿,温暖、清澈见底的水,大量的珊瑚礁和各种各样的海洋生物。
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- 15. Coral reefs are one of the most fragile, biologically complex, and diverse marine ecosystems on Earth.
- 珊瑚礁是地球上最脆弱、生态性最复杂、最多样化的海洋生态系统之一。
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- 16. We think that when reefs are damaged, after a few years, the fastest-growing corals repopulate the areas.
- 我们认为,如果珊瑚礁遭到破坏,几年之后,生长最快的珊瑚就会重新在该地区繁衍生息。
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- 17. There's another technique that's been experimented with to try to help coral reefs recover from bleaching.
- 人们还尝试了另一种技术,试图帮助珊瑚礁从漂白状态中恢复。
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- 18. We are seeing a decline in major ecosystems like kelp forests, sea life communities, coral reefs and so on.
- 我们正目睹像海藻丛林,海洋生物群落,珊瑚礁等主要生态系统的衰落。
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- 19. There are several techniques being employed today that could prove useful in assuring the future of the reefs.
- 经过检验,今天所运用的一些技术能有效保障珊瑚礁的未来。
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- 20. We can also protect the reefs by protecting the surrounding ecosystems, like mangrove forests and seagrass beds.
- 我们保护珊瑚礁的方法还有保护周边的生态系统,比如红树林和海草丛。
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- 21. A quarter of all sea species spend at least a part of their life in a reef and many reefs are in cold or temperate waters.
- 四分之一的海洋物种在珊瑚礁中度过了它们一生中至少一半的时间,而且很多珊瑚礁处于寒冷或温和的水中。
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- 22. These should be the area of concentration for researchers to locate and protect those regions as a way to sustain coral reefs.
- 这些区域是研究人员应该定位并保护的中心区域,这是维持珊瑚礁群的一种方法。
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- 23. Now let's focus on a specific example of a natural predator that can cause a lot of damage to coral reefs—the Crown of Thorns, or CoT starfish.
- 现在,让我们来看一个自然捕食者的具体例子,它会对珊瑚礁造成很大的伤害——那就是刺冠海星。
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- 24. If some reefs are destroyed by storms, starfish populations that inhabited those reefs would have to condense and concentrate on the reefs that are left.
- 如果一些珊瑚礁被风暴摧毁了,居住在那些珊瑚礁上的海星种群将不得不集中在剩下的珊瑚礁上。
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- 25. Since the disappearance of sea urchins from the waters up the coast of South Florida, many coral reefs there have been smothered by the uncontrolled growth of algae.
- 自从海胆从南佛罗里达海岸的海水中消失后,那里有许多珊瑚礁被不受控制生长的藻类所扼杀。
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- 26. Larval CoT starfish eat phytoplankton in their first month of life, so more fertilizer in the ocean means more phytoplankton, which means more starfish, bad for the reefs.
- 年幼的刺冠海星在出生后的第一个月就以浮游植物为食,所以海洋中肥料越多,浮游植物就越多,也意味着海星越多,这对珊瑚礁非常不利。
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- 27. We've been talking about the decline of coral reefs in tropical areas all over the world—how natural and man-made stresses are causing them to degrade or in some cases, to die.
- 我们之前提到了世界各地热带地区中珊瑚礁的衰落,即自然和人为(造成的)压力是怎样造成珊瑚礁退化,或者甚至在某些情况下,造成它们死亡的。
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- 28. We've gone over where coral reefs are usually formed—along the edges of shallow ocean banks in tropical or subtropical regions, and the fact that they are declining at an alarming rate.
- 我们已经对珊瑚礁通常是在哪里形成的问题进行了讨论,它们是在热带或亚热带地区沿着浅海海岸的边缘形成的,而它们的数量正在以惊人的速度减少。
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- 29. One consequence for coral reefs is that the symbiosis between the corals and algae that constitute a living reef is breaking down.
- 珊瑚礁面临的一个后果是,构成活珊瑚礁的珊瑚和藻类之间的共生关系正在瓦解。
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- 30. So we have been fairly thorough in our discussion about coral reefs, which of course are prominent, oceanic features made of hard limestone skeletons produced by tiny coral animals.
- 我们对珊瑚礁的讨论已经相当深入了;显然,珊瑚礁具有显著的海洋特征,由小型珊瑚动物制造的石灰骨架构成。
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