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这里有在印度尼西亚珊瑚海最新发现的矮小海马，闪着“电”光的蛤蜊和一丛丛的剧毒海蛇。这里还有海胆掉进巨海藻丛林，以及巨大的牛皮海狮捕食南非国王企鹅的场面。而这些企鹅不顾它们在体重上的劣势，拿出勇气与之海狮争斗的场景着实精彩。
adj. 浅的，薄的
n. 浅滩，浅处
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- Although most life in tropical waters is concentrated around the coral reefs and the seagrass meadows,
- 虽然多数热带海洋生物聚集在珊瑚礁或者海洋牧场里
- there are some spectacular exceptions.
- 不过还有些例外引人入胜。
- The desert of Bahrain seems a very unlikely place to find a crowded bustling colony of seabirds.
- 巴林的戈壁沙漠看上去不像是能有大量海鸟筑巢的地方
- But every year, a hundred thousand socotra cormorants gather here to breed.
- 可每年大约有10万只黑喉鸬鹚在这里繁殖
- It's swelteringly hot, and only vigorous panting can prevent the birds from fatal overheating.
- 这里相当酷热，黑喉鸬鹚只好加速呼吸避免中暑。
- This hardly seems a good place to rear young
- 看上去这里不是抚育后代的好地方，
- but at least, there are no land based predators here.
- 不过至少没有陆基的捕食者。
- The only source of trouble is likely to be the neighbors
- 麻烦的唯一来源可能就是邻居了，
- so each nest is built just beyond pecking reach
- 所以每一个鸟窝都筑在邻居啄不到的地方。
- But what about food?
- 食物从哪里来呢?
- There's only bare sand and the warm shallow sea beyond.
- 这个荒凉沙漠远离温暖的浅海。
- Neither seem likely to produce enough nourishment to support bird life on this scale.
- 而且看上去也不能提供给鸬鹚足够的食物。
- The answer is blowing in the wind.
- 答案是刮起的大风。
- Sand whipped up by Shamals offshore winds blows into the seas of the Arabian Gulf.
- 夏马风卷起沙尘吹向波斯湾。
- With the grains come nutrients, which act as fertilizer
- 风把带着养分的沙尘，像肥料一样撒进大海，
- and they transform the shallow sea into a rich fishing ground
- 把这片浅海变成了富饶的渔场。
- So, paradoxically, it's the roasted sands of Arabia that prevent the gulf from being another desert in the sea.
- 矛盾的是，热浪朝天的的阿拉伯半岛阻止海湾变成另一个海中沙漠。
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| shallow | ['ʃæləu] | 联想记忆 | ||
| fertilizer | ['fə:tilaizə] | |||
| tropical | ['trɔpikəl] | |||
| source | [sɔ:s] | |||
| prevent | [pri'vent] | 联想记忆 | ||
| produce | [prə'dju:s] | 联想记忆 | ||
| concentrated | ['kɔnsentreitid] | |||
| bustling | ['bʌsliŋ] | |||
| spectacular | [spek'tækjulə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| transform | [træns'fɔ:m] | 联想记忆 |
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