reconcile - reel Restoring the ocean

让海洋恢复健康

When the ocean recreational area became toopolluted to visit,

当海洋娱乐区污染得不能让人参观时，

locals recounted the promises of thegovernment

当地人列举了政府的种种保证，

and approached it to support a restorationproject.

要求政府支持一项恢复计划。

The government surprised everyone byagreeing to help,

让大家惊讶的是，政府竟然答应了，

realizing that they would become redundantif they did not.

因为官员们意识到要是不帮忙他们 就要失业了。

The restoration project began.

恢复计划开始了。

Locals recruited experts to help restorethe quality of the reefs

当地人聘请了专家来帮助恢复礁石质量，

where people loved to scuba dive.

人们最爱在这个地方戴水肺潜水。

Companies redeemed bonds

各家公司将债券兑取现金，

to fund pollution reduction and recyclingprojects.

以资助减少污染和回收利用项目。

And small, local fisherman negotiated withlarge fishing companies

势单力薄的当地渔民同大型捕鱼公司协商

to work together to help recover the fishpopulation

共同帮助恢复鱼的数量

that had been reduced to almost nothingfrom over fishing.

由于过度捕捞，鱼的数量已减少到近乎零了。

Everyone became part of the recoveryproject,

每个人都投身到恢复工作中，

looking to it for the redemption of thefailed economy.

他们指望这项工作能拯救衰退了的经济。

The project wasn't always easy.

但这项工作并不是一帆风顺。

When arguments occurred, locals mediated toreconcile both parties.

有争执发生时，当地人便通过斡旋使双方和解

Conflicting ideas on how to reconstruct thereef itself also lead to conflict.

关于如何修复礁石的不同观点也导致了冲突，

68 experts on ecology, reef dynamics,oceanography, engineering, etc.

于是68位研究生态学、礁石动态学、海洋学及工程学等方面的专家

attended one large meeting

参加了一次大型会议，

held in a large beach that had the shape ofa rectangle.

这次会议是在一个形状上有点儿像长方形的巨大海滩上举行的。

At this meeting, after much discussion,

经过会上的激烈讨论，

they were finally able to rectify theconflicts

他们最终得以纠正发生冲突的做法，

and remove the redundancy that had causedthe initial problem.

消除那些最初引发问题的多余的东西。

Some arguments recurred, but were never asserious as before.

有些争论会反复发生，但再也没有以前 那么严重了。

When the reef had been reconstructed,

礁石修复之后，

experts noted that it had been done inrecord time

专家们说修复工作所用的时间创了纪录，

and declared it a success to be modeledthroughout the world.

并且宣布这是一次成功在全世界是个典范。

Reels of film that had recorded the processwere made into advertisements

一盘盘记录这一过程的胶片被做成广告，

inviting recreation to return to an areathat was now protected and environmentally safe.

邀请人们回到这个既环保又安全的地方娱乐。

And the ocean breathed a sigh of relief!

海洋这才舒了一口气。