This ecosystem is one of the fascinating paradoxes of the biosphere: how do clear, and thus nutrient-poor, waters support such prolific and productive communities?

这个生态系统是生物圈中令人着迷的悖论之一：清澈而又缺乏营养的水域是如何支撑如此多产的群落的？

Recently planetary scientists have suggested that the external preconditions for the development of Earth's biosphere probably included four paramount contingencies.

最近，行星科学家提出，地球生物圈发展的外部先决条件可能包括四个最重要的偶发事件。

Biocycle is the cycling of chemicals through the biosphere.

生物循环是化学物质在生物圈内的循环。

In the immense and vast global biosphere, there exists a kind of noteless melanocratic organic matter which is humic substances.

在浩瀚广袤的地球生物圈里，蕴藏着一种不引人注目的暗色有机物，这就是腐植酸类物质。

Biosphere: Orchids, 1993.

生物圈：兰花，1993年(Biosphere： Or chids, 1993)。

They're inside the Biosphere voluntarily.

他们是自愿呆在生物圈里面的。

Let the Biosphere die.

让生物圈消亡去吧。

Technology has come to be more diverse than the biosphere.

技术手段已经变得比生物圈更为多样化。

The real biosphere — like the whole world — or the fake one?

真正的生物圈——像整个世界一样的——还是假的生物圈？

How would a reductionist explain the biosphere, for example?

例如，一个还原主义者会如何解释生物圈呢？

One such biosphere has 26 stories and a staff of 50,000.

这样一个生态圈保护区有26层楼和50000名职员。

Another important effect of Biosphere 2 is social, said Winters.

温特说，生物圈2号的另一个重要影响是它的社会性。

Imagine beholding the interworking of an entire alien biosphere.

人们不断地对整个外星生物圈的结构与工作进行想象。

The biosphere allows you to scale between those two sets of data.

鲁伊斯说，“这个生物圈让你能够在两组数据之间进行衡量。”

You now have a biosphere that's completely transformed by people.

他说，“比如现在你有一个完全由人类改变的生物圈。”

Lamarck made an intuitive guess about the biosphere and again was prescient.

拉马克凭直觉推演生物圈，而且具有先见之明。

The University of Arizona opened the Windows, but Biosphere 2 remains useful.

亚利桑那大学打开了生物圈密闭的窗户，但生物圈2号仍然有利用价值。

The overall region where this water exists is called the subsurface biosphere.

这些水存在的全部区域称为地下生物圈。

The image of the Biosphere had shifted again; it was a little out of her control.

生物圈的图像有变动了；她有点失去了控制。

The original Biosphere 2 mission, though convoluted, did generate useful findings.

尽管生物圈2号的初始任务错综复杂，但它确实产生了一些有益的结果。

That's the idea behind artificial ecosystems, all the way up to the infamous Biosphere II.

而那正是人工生态系统、直至声名狼藉的生物圈二号的初衷。

The concept of a shadow biosphere, according to Professor Davies, "is still just a theory".

“阴影生物圈”的概念，戴维斯教授说，“只是一个理论而已。”

To anyone familiar with Biosphere 2's controversial origins, that might seem an odd notion.

对于任何熟悉生物圈2号引起争议原因的人们来说，这似乎是个奇怪的观念。

It came out of a chicken, which is part of a farm, which is part of the biosphere, etc., etc.

它是母鸡生下的，它是饲养场的一部分，它是生物圈的一部分，等等。

However hard we fall, we will recover sufficiently to land another hammer blow on the biosphere.

无论我们摔得有多惨重，我们仍能恢复到再给生物圈来一次重击。

The Danube flows into the Black Sea forming the Danube Delta which is a reservation of the Biosphere.

多瑙河流入黑海，形成保护生物圈的多瑙河三角洲。