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- Tucked away in the United Arab Emirate's northernmost region,
- 在阿拉伯联合酋长国的北部地区，
- a very delicate experiment is underway to bring some luster back to the region's pearl industry.
- 正在进行一个奇妙的实验，将会给该地区的珍珠行业增添色彩。
- Since 2005, one company has been cultivating pearls commercially, the first such modern operation of its kind in the Gulf.
- 自2005年起，有一个公司开始商业性的养殖珍珠，在海湾地区，这还是第一次进行现代化的操作。
- "Well, for thousands of years, the whole region depended and, depended totally on pearl fishing.
- “几千年俩，整个地区都依靠采集珍珠。
- And within a few years, let's say that two decades, because of the discovery of oil and the invention of pearl culture, the whole industry collapsed."
- 近几年，或者说，近20年来，由于发现了石油，整个珍珠养殖也就崩溃了。”
- Al-Suwaidi says that the UAE is the first Gulf nation to renew pearl cultivation, and for good reason.
- Al-Suwaidi说，阿拉伯联合酋长国是海湾地区第一个重兴珍珠养殖业的国家，而且动机很好。
- His stock of over 100,000 pearl-producing mollusks are kept in pans and painstakingly cleaned and tended,
- 他储存了100，000能够生产珍珠的软体动物，这些软体动物被养殖在平底锅里，勤奋的繁殖，
- increasing their potential to grow and produce large high-quality pearls.
- 增加他们生长和产生大的高质的珍珠的潜力。
- Oysters are a very delicate species of mollusk whose lives and prosperities are measures of the environmental conditions they inhabit.
- 牡蛎是软体动物中非常奇妙的一个种类，他们的生活和习性取决于他们居住的环境。
- Al-Suwaidi's business partner, Imura Daiji, says the link between the pearl and its environment is very important.
- Al-Suwaidi的商业伙伴Imura Daiji说，珍珠和环境之间的联系非常重要。
- The bigger and healthier the pearl oyster, the larger the pearl it can produce.
- 珍珠牡蛎越大，越健康，产生的珍珠也越大。
- "Oyster pearl cultivation and the environment is a very very deep relationship."
- “牡蛎珍珠养殖和环境之间有着非常非常密切的关系。”
- The untouched quality of this protected ecosystem has allowed him
- “这个不可接触的受保护的生态系统
- to see a faster span of production time than he had seen in Japan, the birthplace of the industry.
- 使他养殖的时间比在日本见到的时间要短。日本是珍珠养殖业的发源地。”
- In years past, pearl divers would plunge without apparatus more than 100 feet beneath the sea,
- 过去，珍珠采集者在没有装备的情况下必须潜入海面以下100多英尺的海水里寻找珍珠，
- making as many as 30 or more dives a day with only an estimated…
- 每天要潜水30多次，估计只能采到……
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1.tuck away 藏起来
We were tucked away in a secluded corner of the room.
我们被藏在那房间的一个隐蔽角落里。
2.depend on 依赖；依靠
You may depend on the accuracy of the report.
你可以信赖报告的准确性。
3.birthplace 发源地；出生地
Hawaii was the birthplace of surfing.
夏威夷是冲浪运动的发源地。
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