Barron, who has invested millions of dollars in preliminary environmentalimpact assessments, describes the abyssal plain where the nodules are located as a " lifeless desert" where the impact of mining is likely to be minimal, if felt at all.

巴伦在初影响评估中投入了数百万美元，他将结核所在深海平原描述为一个 “无生命沙漠”，采矿影响可能是极其微小。

But after that, it's all bets are off because you're going down into the abyssal zone.

但在此之后，一切就都难以预料了，因为你将深入深海。

Its surface, new measurements reveal, is as black as the blackest material known-the result of an abyssal arms race.

最新测量数据表明其表面和最黑暗已知物质一样黑—这是深海军备竞赛结果。

From the atmosphere to the abyssal zone, we are polluted.

从大气层深海， 我们都被污染了。

The abyssal zones account for about 70 percent of the planet.

深带约占地球面积70%。

The depth of the open ocean varies considerably  but the majority of it falls from the continental shelf down to depths of between 3,000 and 6000  meters, in what are known as abyssal plains.

公海深度差异很大， 但大部分从大陆架延伸 3,000 至 6,000 米深地，即所谓深海平原。

Who are the people that have the equipment that can excavate down into the abyssal regions to draw up core samples?

哪些人拥有能够深入深域挖掘岩芯样本设备？

And not " the abyss" like they say on TV.The abyssal zone technically are depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters.

而不是他们在电视上所说“深”。从技术上讲，深深度在 3,000 6,000 米之间。

The hand-holder slowed as we got closer, and I was overwhelmed by that abyssal aloneness I thought I'd lost forever.

当我们走近时， 握手人放慢了脚，我被那种深不可测孤独感所淹没， 我曾以为这种感觉已经永远离我而去。

Sea cucumbers are found everywhere from shallow shores to abyssal trenches 6,000 meters below sea level.

从浅滩海平面以下 6000 米深海海沟，海参随处可见。

The abyssal zone technically are depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters.

深带技术定义是深度在30006000米之间域。

So light-skinned humans are from latitudes that are further away from abyssal landscapes that are further away from the equator than darker-skinned humans who are more equatorial regions.

所以，肤色较浅人类来自离赤道更远纬度，这些地比肤色较深人类所在更靠近赤道地离深景观更远。

The dark, high pressure abyssal reaches of the ocean produce probably the most alien  looking lifeforms out of any found on our world.

深海黑暗、高压域孕育了可能看起来最不像地球生物生命形态。

But these continents, in terms of a strict geological definition  actually extend outward some way into the sea, in the form of shallow continental shelves, before  suddenly dropping down into the abyssal plains of the deep oceans.

但这些大陆，从严格地质定义来看，实际上通过浅海大陆架向外延伸了一段距离，然后突然下降深海海底平原。

So these animals are essentially gardening because if they didn't do that, these big, vast abyssal plains of the planet would become big, stagnant, horrible cesspits.

所以这些动物本质上是在园艺，因为如果它们不这样做，地球上这些广阔无垠深海平原将变成巨大、停滞、 可怕污水坑。

This effect is most pronounced in  the tropics, while at the poles, the temperature of seawater is more or less the same from  the surface down into the abyssal depths.

这种效应在热带地最为明显，而在极地， 海水从表面深海温度则大致相同。

But the Mediterranean and  Caribbean Seas are really oceans, in the sense that they fall away to deep  abyssal plains where no light can reach.

但是地中海和加勒比海实际上是海洋，因为它们延伸深不可测深平原， 阳光无法达那里。