Our boat foundered on a reef.

我们的船触礁沉没。

The island is encircled by a coral reef.

这个岛周围都是珊瑚礁。

An unspoiled coral reef encloses the bay.

未经破坏的珊瑚礁围绕着该海湾。

A coral reef is built by the accretion of tiny, identical organisms.

珊瑚礁是由相同的微生物累积形成的。

More than 1,000 shipwrecks litter the coral reef ringing the islands.

一千多艘遇难船只散布在环绕岛屿的珊瑚礁之中。

With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small craft close to the reef.

渔夫艰难地驾着小船靠近了礁石。

The ship was wrecked on the hidden reef.

那艘船撞到暗礁沉没了。

The reef is dying.

珊瑚礁正在消亡。

Refugia are areas on the reef that are seemingly well resistant to bleaching.

生物避难所是珊瑚礁上那些看起来很耐漂白的地方。

This isn't scuba diving now off the Great Barrier Reef, or something like that.

这不是在大堡礁附近潜水，或者是类似的潜水的活动。

On a coral reef in the Bonin Islands, an abandoned wormhole is home to a hermit crab.

在小笠原群岛一个珊瑚礁上，一个废弃的虫洞是寄居蟹的家。

In my mind, it's these refugia that are the key components of overall reef resilience.

我认为这些避难所是珊瑚礁总体恢复力的关键成分。

The question now is whether reef-building corals have the capacity to adapt to those changes.

现在的问题是造礁珊瑚是否有能力适应这些变化。

See, when coral reefs experience bleaching, it's rarely a case of the whole reef being affected.

你看，当珊瑚礁经历白化时，整个珊瑚礁群受到的影响是很小的。

Finding Nemo was a film about a young clownfish called Nemo, who is stolen from his coral reef home.

《海底总动员》这部电影讲述的是一条年轻的小丑鱼 Nemo，从他的家珊瑚礁那里离家出走了。

These are often the lower areas of the reef, those located in deeper water, where temperatures are lower.

这些通常处于珊瑚礁低处，即在温度更低的深水域处。

The New York Times reported that large parts are already dead, and the reef system might be gone by 2030.

《纽约时报》报道称，大部分的大堡礁已经死亡，到2030年可能会消失。

Natural disasters such as the earthquake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 have also caused reef loss.

诸如2004年触发印度洋海啸的地震这样的自然灾难也会导致珊瑚礁损失。

There is little evidence that the storms have caused the enough reef damage to create a food shortage for these starfish.

几乎没有证据表明，风暴造成了足够的珊瑚礁破坏，造成这些海星的食物短缺。

A quarter of all sea species spend at least a part of their life in a reef and many reefs are in cold or temperate waters.

四分之一的海洋物种在珊瑚礁中度过了它们一生中至少一半的时间，而且很多珊瑚礁处于寒冷或温和的水中。

For example, during the 1960s, there was an outbreak of CoT starfish in the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia.

例如在20世纪60年代，在澳大利亚东海岸的大堡礁，刺冠海星的数量暴增。

One consequence for coral reefs is that the symbiosis between the corals and algae that constitute a living reef is breaking down.

珊瑚礁面临的一个后果是，构成活珊瑚礁的珊瑚和藻类之间的共生关系正在瓦解。

Recently, researchers have used data collected by monitoring surface water temperatures to improve the ability of a reef to recover from bleaching.

最近，研究人员通过监测表面水温获得数据，并用此数据来提升珊瑚礁从漂白状态中恢复的能力。

Princessfish are a species of coral-reef fish that are captured alive by divers who first stun the individual fish by squirting a certain poison at them.

公主鱼是一种珊瑚礁鱼，潜水员会先将某种毒药喷到鱼身上，使其昏迷，然后将其活捉。

Call these projects "stimulus", and suddenly, a ship headed for the reef of economic disaster might sail through congress flying the flag of economic recovery.

把这些项目称为“刺激”，突然之间，一艘驶向经济灾难暗礁的船可能会打着经济复苏的旗号在国会通过。

On the bright side, in all the research being done on causes, we have discovered something related to how starfish populations might affect coral reef diversity.

好的一面是，我们在所有关于起因的研究中，发现了一些关于海星数量如何影响珊瑚礁多样性的内容。

This involves moving young coral from a healthy reef onto a degraded reef, in an attempt to regenerate the degraded reef by encouraging young healthy coral to take over.

这涉及到把年轻珊瑚从一个健康珊瑚礁移到一个退化的珊瑚礁上，通过促进年轻健康的珊瑚来接管，试图使退化的珊瑚礁再生。

Not only will the sunken plane create the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth, but authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourists to the area.

这架沉没的飞机不仅将为人工珊瑚礁的生长创造完美的骨架，当局还希望这一新的水下景点将吸引游客到该地区。

"I would like to have seen more protection for coral reefs," says Terry Hughes, director of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland.

“我希望珊瑚礁能得到更多保护。”昆士兰州詹姆斯·库克大学珊瑚礁卓越研究中心主任特里·休斯说。

But tourism is double-edged, for although it's boosting the country's economy, the Reef could be damaged.

但旅游业是有利有弊的，因为尽管它能繁荣国家经济，海礁却会被破坏。