Like Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands, the world's garbage patches may give birth to new life forms.

就像加拉帕戈斯群岛上的达尔文雀一样，世界上的垃圾区可能会孕育出新的生命形式。

In 1997, Captain Moore discovered a massive garbage patch in the North Pacific.

1997 年，摩尔船长在北太平洋发现了一个巨大的垃圾带。

You've heard about these things, turtles caught in six-pack rings, garbage patches as large as Texas, and beaches with more plastic debris than sand.

你们应该听说过这些事情，海龟被六罐装饮料的塑料固定环套住，和德克萨斯州一样大的垃圾场，塑料垃圾比沙子还多的海滩。

Now, we spoke with Mr. Slat back in September, just after his team launched a floating device designed to clean up that Great Pacific garbage patch.

今年9月，我们采访了斯莱特先生，那次采访前斯莱特的团队刚刚推出了一种漂浮装置，旨在清理太平洋上的那片大垃圾带的塑料。

And I think of those months to make this journey out to Midway slapped in the middle of North Pacific Gyre, what's thought to be the biggest garbage patch in the world's oceans in the moment.

我在想象这些垃圾是如何在太平洋环流的作用下一步步漂流到这里的。

Not that this is about me, but this balloons my anxiety the size of the giant Pacific garbage patch way out in the ocean where we'll all eventually go for our next destination wedding.

并不是说这是关于我的，但这让我感到焦虑， 就像巨大的太平洋垃圾场一样大， 一直延伸到海洋中， 我们最终都会去那里举行下一次目的地婚礼。

The growth of plastics in our daily lives has led  to the dramatic rise in marine plastic pollution that can be found littering beaches and forming  gigantic garbage patches in the middle of ocean gyres.

我们日常生活中塑料的使用日益增多，导致海洋塑料污染急剧增加，海滩上随处可见塑料垃圾，在海洋环流中形成巨大的垃圾带。