(单词翻译:单击)
Sea cucumbers are repulsive to most predators, so the pearl fish is safe inside.
大多数捕食者排斥海参,所以珍珠鱼在里面很安全 。
It'll stay until it's time to feed again.
它会呆在那里直到下一次觅食 。
It doesn't harm its host, but the bad news for sea cucumbers is that pearl fish are happy to share that temporary home with others.
它对寄主无害,但对海参而言坏消息是珍珠鱼喜欢与大家分享它们的临时住所 。
It seems there's plenty of room for all.
看来里面空间足够大家呆的 。
The Barrier Reef we see today is comparatively young.
我们现在看到的大堡礁相对年轻 。
It began to form during the last ice-age when sea levels were 120 meters lower than they are today.
它们在上一冰河世纪开始形成,那时海平面比现在低120米 。
When the ices began to melt, the growth of corals get paste of the rising seas blocking off the waters of the lagoon.
当冰层褪去,随着海水上升开始生长,将环礁湖的水体封闭了起来 。
And during that one great event, another important habitat was created.
经过那个大事件,另一个重要的栖息地出现了 。
Stretching away behind May to the Horizon, it's the greatest expense of the lagoon.
在我身后一直延伸到地平线的是广阔的环礁湖,
And yet admit 10,000 years ago, that's a blink of an eye in geological time.
在仅仅1万年前,那只是地质年代的一瞬间 。
The beach under standing on would have been a slope of the hill overlooking a plane covered in Eucalyptus forest.
我所站的这片海滩,曾是一座俯视着树林平原的小山坡 。
With the sea level rose, the plain was inundated,and the hill became an island.
但是海平面上升,平原被淹没而小山变成一座岛屿 。
These continental islands as they're known are essentially pieces of mainland cut off by the rising water.
这些陆边岛正如它们的名字是被上升的海水隔开的大陆地块 。
There are 600 of them scattered about the lagoon.
在环礁湖上星罗棋布着600多座这样的小岛 。