1. They took out marine insurance through American insurance firms.
他们通过美国保险公司投保了海上保险。

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2. We know exactly how long this wreck has been under water and how long marine life has been growing on it.
我们能够确切地知道这些残骸在水中有多长时间,以及海洋生物在其上面生长了多久。

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3. There was no one else on the beach, and the nearest phone to call the Marine Patrol was miles away.
海滩上只有我一个人,如果要呼叫海上巡逻队,最近的电话离这有几英里远。

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4. Ocean acidification is one of many [stressors] that our marine environments are contending with right now.
海洋酸化是我们的海洋环境现在正与之斗争的许多[胁迫因素]之一。

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5. In marine biology, however, both of these knowledge bases have been rather murky.
然而在海洋生物学里,能找到这些相关知识的根据却相当困难。

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6. I know of scientists who conduct marine life surveys and identify new species every time they go out on a dive.
我知道有科学家在从事海洋生命的研究,他们每一次潜入海里,都能发现新的物种。

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7. A lot of marine species have no sex life at all, but just squirt their eggs or semen into sea.
很多海洋生物根本就没有性生活,但它们只是将卵子或精子喷射到大海之中。

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8. Collectively, he believes, these bits of marine life could rival the force of the winds and tides in ocean circulation.
整体来说,他相信这些海洋生物可以与海洋循环系统中风和潮汐的力量匹敌。

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9. Plastic bags cause the deaths of 100, 000 marine animals each year when the animals mistake them for food, so if you must use them, always recycle them in the bin at your supermarket.
塑料袋每年会导致100,000海洋动物死亡,因为这些动物常常把塑料袋误当食物吞下去,因此,如果你一定要用塑料袋,一定要在超市垃圾箱回收塑料袋。

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10. The adult male sea lion, which was found about a half-mile from the nearest canal, rested on the back of a highway patrol cruiser while officers waited for a marine rescue team to pick up the animal.
这只在离当地最近的运河大约半英里处被发现的雄性成年海狮,在公路巡洋舰队的后面休息,当一位军官在等待一支舰队救援组时看到了它。

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11. The Marine Conservation Society, an advocacy group based in Britain, has a set of guidelines about which fish should or should not be eaten.
海洋保护协会,这个建立在英国的海洋保护的宣传队,有一份哪些鱼该吃或哪些不该吃的清单。

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12. But even this method runs the risk of altering the acidity of soil or marine ecosystems unless precautions are taken with disposal.
但是即便这种方法也面临着改变土壤酸性或海洋生态系统的风险,除非采取处理的预防措施。

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13. “What’s wonderful about looking at the past is the long lens of geological history,” said Whiteside. “There is evidence that food web collapse is starting to occur in some marine ecosystems.
“回顾过去的神奇之处就在于它是地质历史的长镜头,”怀特塞德说,“有证据表明食物网的崩溃已经开始存在于一些海洋生态系统之中。

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14. The new standards adopted will go a long way towards protecting human health, as they set out new, maximum limits for lead in fish, cadmium in rice, marine bivalve molluscs and cephalopods.
通过的这些新标准将对保护人类健康大有帮助,因为它们提出鱼类中铅以及大米、海洋双壳贝类和头足类动物中镉的新的最高限量。

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15. Why is the rate of carbon being absorbed by the oceans so disturbing for marine scientists?
为什么海洋对二氧化碳吸收的速率让海洋科学家心神不宁呢?

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16. "There is a small exclusion zone of a 30-kilometer radius around the plant where there is no traffic allowed - neither marine nor air traffic is allowed into this 30-kilometer radius," noted Tuempel.
他说:“在核电站周围有一个半径为30公里的小范围禁区,那里是不允许交通出行的。无论是海上交通还是空中交通,都不能进入这30公里半径的禁区。

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17. He adds, poignantly, “I knew the marine life would be more abundant, but I couldn’t imagine it would be so spectacular”.
一切历历在目,他继续说道,“我知道海洋生物要丰富得多,但是不曾想到竟会如此蔚为壮观。”

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18. Whales and other marine mammals, fish, and even some invertebrates depend on sound, which travels much farther in water than light does.
鲸鱼和其他海洋哺乳动物,鱼类甚至一些无脊椎动物依靠声音,声音在水中传播要比光快。

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19. The centre is fully in support of US science diplomacy efforts to expand partnerships from US universities to develop Indonesian capacity in marine and ocean sciences.
这个中心充分支持美国科学外交的举措从而扩展和美国大学的伙伴关系,以便发展印度尼西亚的海洋科学能力。

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20. "We already knew it was a kind of gelatinous, soft animal, " said marine biologist Rui Rosa of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, who led the study team.
葡萄牙里斯本大学的海洋生物学家芮-罗莎说,“我们已经知道它是一种凝胶状的软体动物”。她是该研究小组的负责人。

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21. This means governments and wildlife campaigners have just under three years to adjust their campaign strategies accordingly, if they hope to protect more marine species at the next meeting, in 2013.
这表示政府和野生生物保护者们只能在三年间重整他们的活动策略,如果想要保护更多的海洋生物,到2013年的下一轮会议再说吧。

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22. "From isotope analysis, we were able to get a good idea of its feeding ecology, and it fits very well at the top of the feeding chain of marine mammals" like polar bears today, she notes.
“通过同位素的分析,我们已经能够大致掌握它的摄食生态了,而这也很符合位于食物链顶端的海洋哺乳动物的情况”就像现在的北极熊一样,她说。

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23. And because of their size and few predators, whales and other big marine vertebrates can efficiently export carbon from the surface waters to the deep sea.
而且由于其体积大,鲜有天敌,鲸鱼和其它大型海洋脊椎动物可以有效地吸收海水表层的碳,将其输出到深海。

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24. The extent of damage to the coastal and marine resources has yet to be comprehensively evaluated.
海啸对沿海和海洋资源造成的损害程度仍然有待全面评估。

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25. The extent of damage to the coastal and marine resources has yet to be comprehensively evaluated.
海啸对沿海和海洋资源造成的损害程度仍然有待全面评估。

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