We are coral atolls, and corals are dying.

我们国家是珊瑚环礁岛屿，而珊瑚正在死去。

And today, the closest I've come is visiting remote atolls in the western Indian Ocean.

到目前为止，我去过的 最类似的地方是一些位于西印度洋的偏远环礁。

They reckon that a turbine on such an atoll would run for about 75% of the time.

他们估计，在这样一个环礁上的涡轮机大约有75%的时间是运转的。

Lots of Pacific islands are atolls.

许多太平洋岛屿都是环礁。

We're back on the main atoll of Tarawa.

我们现在回到塔拉瓦岛的主要环礁。

If you sail past an atoll, it's only a tree high.

如果你绕过珊瑚礁 它就只有一棵树那么高。

The nation consists of 33 such atolls spread out between Hawaii and Australia.

这个国家由33个这样的环礁组成，分布在夏威夷和澳大利亚之间。

The people of Tarawa have already planted more than 50,000 mangroves on the beaches of the atoll.

塔拉瓦人已经在环礁的海滩上种植了5万多棵红树林。

The narrow Unprotected atolls in the South Pacific are on average only two metres above sea level.

这座南太平洋狭窄的无保护环礁平均海拔仅2米。

An " atoll" (atoll) is a small island formed by a hard substance called coral.

“环礁”（atoll）是由一种叫做珊瑚的坚硬物质形成的小岛。

For example, they have crabs collected at Pacific atolls before and after nuclear bombing tests in the 1940s and 1950s.

例如，他们在太平洋环礁收集了螃蟹，时间是上世纪 40-50 年代的核爆炸试验之前和之后。

Residents of neighboring atolls were only evacuated three days later suffering from radiation sickness.

三天后，邻近环礁的居民因辐射病才被疏散。

The atoll was later used to keep dangerous chemical weapons.

该环礁后来被用来存放危险的化学武器。

You can't just go to the atoll.

你不能只去环礁。

You will find lots of the atolls in the South Pacific, and that's where the Johnston Atoll is.

您会在南太平洋发现许多环礁，约翰斯顿环礁就位于此。

The Maldives is a small island nation located in the Indian Ocean, consisting of 26 atolls and over 1,000 islands.

马尔代夫是一个位于印度洋的小岛国，由26个环礁和1000多个岛屿组成。

Made up of 1,200 or so islands and atolls, the Maldives boasts some of the best and most breathtaking beaches in the world.

由大约1200座岛屿和环礁组成，马尔代夫拥有世界上最好、最令人惊叹的海滩。

Marine biologist Arranante Takeo has been investigating the health of the coral reefs around Tarawa and the surrounding atolls for more than ten years.

海洋生物学家 Arranante Takeo 十多年来一直在调查塔拉瓦岛周围的珊瑚礁和环礁的健康状况。

In some places, they form atolls, a circular ring surrounding a lagoon or small inner lake that gaps place in contact with the sea.

在某一处，它们形成一个圆形的环，围绕着一个珊瑚洲或一个内湖，边缘有缺口，可与大海相通。

We're seeing a lot of coastal erosion happening on all our islands here in the Cook Islands, particularly around the northern islands because there are low-lying atolls.

我们看到在库克群岛的所有岛屿上都发生了大面积的海岸侵蚀，尤其是北部岛屿周围，因为那里有低洼的环礁。