跟讀練習: Why should we care about coral reefs? - 通過影片學習英語口語

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People often ask me why should we care about coral reefs?
人們經常問我,我們為什麼要關心珊瑚礁?
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Corals build one of the most important ecosystems in the ocean.
珊瑚構建了海洋中最重要的生態系統之一。
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They are animals, but they look like rocks
它們是動物,但看起來像石頭。
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because they make a skeleton underneath themselves and they leave it behind as they grow up toward the sun.
因為它們會在自身下方形成一個骨架結構,當它們向著陽光生長時,就會把這個骨架留在身後。
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And then that creates homes for sponges and clams and snails.
然後,這就為海綿、蛤蜊和蝸牛創造了棲息的家園。
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And those smaller organisms are what feed the bigger fish and the bigger fish.
而那些較小的生物正是大魚的食物,更大的魚又以這些大魚為食。
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So without the corals, you slowly lose the ability to support the entire pyramid.
因此,如果沒有珊瑚,維持整個生態金字塔的能力就會逐漸喪失。
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People often don't realize that they help protect the shorelines from waves, from big storms and from hurricanes.
人們往往沒有意識到,它們有助於保護海岸線免受海浪、大風暴和颶風的侵襲。
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We know that corals can live for a long time, but what's particularly interesting about that is
我們知道珊瑚可以存活很長時間,但其中特別有趣的一點是
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that they're living in the blazing hot sun near the equator for hundreds and hundreds of years.
他們數百年來一直生活在赤道附近烈日炎炎的環境中。
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So now scientists are looking into how a coral manages to repair its DNA
因此,現在科學家們正在研究珊瑚是如何修復自身DNA的。
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when it's sitting in the blazing sun for decades and decades,
當它在熾熱的陽光下暴曬數十年又數十年時,
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and hopefully we can understand how to prevent the mutations that eventually lead to cancer in humans.
希望我們能瞭解如何預防最終導致人類癌症的突變。
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Corals live with algae in their tissues.
珊瑚與藻類共生在它們的組織中。
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It would be as if you had lettuce growing under your skin
那就好像你的皮膚下面長著生菜一樣。
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and you were able to use the calories that that lettuce was making without eating any food.
你無需進食任何食物,就能利用生菜產生的熱量。
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When a coral bleaches, the balance between that algae and that host coral sometimes goes off.
當珊瑚發生白化時,藻類與宿主珊瑚之間的平衡有時會被打破。
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The coral spits out those symbiotic partners
珊瑚會吐出那些共生夥伴。
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and it's very difficult for them to survive because they've lost their main source of food.
它們很難生存下去,因為已經失去了主要的食物來源。
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Unfortunately, anywhere you have humans, corals tend to suffer.
不幸的是,只要有人類活動的地方,珊瑚往往就會受到影響。
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And that's because all the activities that we do on land, things like building, things like discharging sewage, things like agriculture, those all affect the ocean.
這是因為我們在陸地上進行的所有活動,比如建築施工、排放汙水、農業生產,這些都會對海洋產生影響。
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A country that's doing a very strong job of conservation is Palau.
帛琉是一個在自然保護方面做得非常出色的國家。
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They saw a massive coral bleaching event in 1998 and realized that they were at risk from the changes occurring globally.
他們在1998年目睹了一場大規模的珊瑚白化事件,意識到自己正面臨全球變化帶來的風險。
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So they started putting in place fisheries regulations, a marine park, they eventually put in a shark sanctuary,
於是他們開始實施漁業法規,設立海洋公園,最終還建立了鯊魚保護區。
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and now they have 80% of their water protected from any kind of fishing or mining.
如今,他們已有80%的水域受到保護,禁止任何形式的捕撈或採礦活動。
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What we know now is that the sort of days of hoping and wishing for those coral reefs to survive is over.
我們現在知道,那種寄希望於珊瑚礁能夠存活的日子已經結束了。
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This treasure will help us get through the next era of development, as long as we're just kind enough and wise enough to be sure
只要我們足夠善良、足夠明智地把握好方向,這份財富將助力我們順利度過下一個發展時代。
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that they all come along together with us into the future safely and protected.
讓它們都能安全、受到保護地與我們一同走向未來。

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