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seeing this incredible struggling person for the first time gives me a lot of respect for sea turtles
第一次看到虐心的场面，我对海龟的敬意油然而生
hours later the male has outlasted his rivals
几个小时后，这只雄性海龟已经击败了对手
he fertilizes the females eggs and with luck
幸运地让雌性海龟受精
his genes will continue on
他的基因得以延续
as if her job weren't hard enough already
好像雌性海龟辛苦地不止这些
the female now faces another tremendous task to lay the eggs
雌性海龟现在面临着另一项艰巨的任务：产卵
but it must wait until nightfall
但必须等到夜幕降临
after the Sun sets I head to the beach in total darkness
太阳下山后，我在一片漆黑中来到海滩
I've come ashore at night to see if I can find some nesting Turtles
夜里上岸看看能不能找到一些筑巢的海龟
the females come ashore and they lay their eggs in the sand
雌性海龟上岸后在沙滩上产卵
but I have to be really quiet because if they see me or they hear me
但我必须保持安静，因为如果它们看到我或者听到我
they'll take off right back into the ocean
会马上回到海里
using infrared night-vision equipment
通过红外线夜视设备
I found a turtle hauling herself out of the water
我发现一只乌龟浮出水面
painstakingly clawing her way up the beach to high ground
艰难地爬上海滩，来到一块高地上
although sea turtles live their entire lives in the ocean
虽然海龟一生都生活在海里
they lay their eggs in a nest on the beach
但产卵却是在海滩上的筑巢里
after the sea turtle reaches an area well above the high-tide line
海龟到达远高于涨潮线的地方之后
she begins to throw sand around to create a pit
开始撒沙子，弄出一个坑来
I have to be very quiet because I was sneaking up on a turtle it's a nesting
我必须保持安静，因为我正偷偷靠近海龟，那是海龟的巢
they get pretty nervous when they're nesting
海龟筑巢时会异常紧张
because predators are everywhere
因为捕食者无处不在
she must stop frequently to catch her breath
它必须经常停下来喘口气
her crushing weight on land literally asphyxiates her
体重让它喘不过气
this is a good place to be, if you wanna get covered and see it
这里是隐蔽的好地方，
she begins to dig a hole about 3 feet deep with her rear flippers
它开始用后鳍挖一个大约3英尺深的洞
the hole doesn't just protect the eggs from predators
这个洞不仅仅是为了保护卵免受捕食者的攻击
the sex of the baby turtles is a function of the incubation temperature
小海龟的性别与孵化温度有关
a shallow nest baking in the Sun will be too warm and all the babies will be female
窝太浅的话在阳光下温度太高，生出的都是雌性海龟
a deep one will be too cold and the babies will all be male
深的话会太冷，都是雄性海龟
digging to the right depth ensures a good mix of males and females
不深不浅才能保证雄性和雌性比例适当
she can't see what she's doing
它看不清深浅
the hole must be dug entirely by feel
全凭感觉
as she begins laying her eggs
当雌性海龟开始产卵的时候
we can gradually bring up some normal lighting
我们可以逐渐将某些正常的照明打开
she's committed to the nest now
雌性海龟现在在专心忙它自己事
at last she begins to lay as many as 100 squishy eggs about the size of ping pong balls into the nest
最后，它开始往巢里产卵了，多达100个，和乒乓球差不多大小
in two months these eggs will hatch and the baby sea turtles will emerge
两个月后，这些卵将孵化，小海龟将出生
after she's finished laying her eggs she carefully fills in the hole
产完卵之后，它小心地把洞填好
then she cleverly disguises the exact location of the nest by flinging some more sand arounds
然后聪明地盖上更多的沙来掩盖巢穴的确切位置
after two hours of effort she plods her way laboriously back to the sea completely exhausted
经过两个小时的努力，她吃力地拖着沉重的步伐回到了大海
for a sea turtle a hundred feet back to the water is like running a marathon
对海龟来说，来到水面100英尺的地方就像是跑马拉松
it requires enormous effort
需要九牛二虎之力
her body is just not designed for travel on land
海龟的身体不适合在陆地上爬行
she needs the weightlessness of the ocean to catch her breath and cool down
她需要海洋的无重状态来帮助自己呼吸和降温
finally she heads back to the reef for a well-deserved rest
最后雌性海龟回到礁石上休息
two months later newly hatched sea turtles raced to the sea
两个月后，刚孵出的海龟跑向大海
each baby turtle must rush past a gauntlet of predators from land sky and sea to reach the open ocean
每只小海龟都必须逃过陆地、天空和海洋的捕食者，才能到达开阔的海洋
odds are only one of these baby sea turtles will survive
这些小海龟中只有一只能存活下来
on their journey the sea turtles must fight their way through the surf
旅途中，海龟们必须在海浪中奋力拼搏
swim across the shallows and then make their way to the open ocean away from predators on the reef
游过浅滩，避开礁石上的掠食者，游向广阔的海洋
they won't return to their home on the reef until they're large enough to be safe about the size of a dinner plate
它们长到和餐盘一样大小，才会回到礁石上的家
it's a long and perilous journey
这是一个漫长而危险的旅程
but if this sea turtle survives it may go on to live over a hundred years
但如果这只海龟能活下来，可能会活100多年
