纪录片《南太平洋》 第115期 水火相容（20）

As tourism and fishing are banned here,

这里的旅游和捕鱼是禁止的

the reef is about as close as you'll get to the Pacific as it used to be, before humans arrived.

在人类到达之前，暗礁就比你接触太平洋要近得多。

Part of what makes Kingman extraordinary is the 200 types of coral found here.

这里发现的200种珊瑚中什么使金曼成为特别的角色。

But there's also something else.

别的东西也同样

And it's helping¹ to build the reef.

它有助产生暗礁

Giant clams²... everywhere. More than you'll see on any other reef in the world.

大蛤到处都是。比你地球上其它地方看到的多得多

When giant clams spawn³, they expel millions of eggs into the water.

当大蛤产卵时，它们向海水释放数百万颗卵。

And when one starts, all the others quickly follow.

要是一个开始了其它全部快速跟进

The sea soon turns cloudy... with life.

海中如云般的充斥着生命

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 clams   

n.蛤；蚌，蛤( clam的名词复数 )v.（在沙滩上）挖蛤( clam的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The restaurant's specialities are fried clams. 这个餐厅的特色菜是炸蚌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We dug clams in the flats et low tide. 退潮时我们在浅滩挖蛤蜊。 来自辞典例句

3 spawn   

n.卵，产物，后代，结果；vt.产卵，种菌丝于，产生，造成；vi.产卵，大量生产

参考例句：

• The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
• These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。