This tight-knit bond between algae and corals is what makes reefs so incredibly productive.

藻类和珊瑚这种紧密联系，就是珊瑚礁生产力如此惊人所在。

Coral is actually the eco skeletons of coral polyps made of limestone.

珊瑚实际上是由石灰岩构成珊瑚生态骨架。

The polyps that make up the stony corals are among the winners of climate change.

构成石珊瑚珊瑚是气候变化赢家一。

Over time, these polyps generate rock-like skeletons made of calcium carbonate.

逐渐地，这些珊瑚长出形似石头，由碳酸钙成骨架。

Coral is made up of small colonial animals, with calcium carbonate skeletons.

珊瑚是由小型珊瑚及其碳酸钙骨骼聚集而成。

Again, what we're seeing here is blue light hitting this image.

我们这里所看到是，蓝色 光照在珊瑚图像 。

They're a symbiotic duo, a partnership, between an algae and a coral.

珊瑚是共生体，是海藻和珊瑚合作关系。

At the heart of reef ecosystems lies a symbiosis between corals and algae.

珊瑚礁生态系统核心是珊瑚和藻类共生关系。

It is textured to allow coral polyps to attach.

质地适合珊瑚附着。

First, tiny creatures, just a few millimetres in length, called polyps.

第一种，是一种微小生物，只有几毫米长称为珊瑚。

On the surface of this sea fan, there are two polyps that are not polyps.

在这株海扇上，有2只珊瑚不像珊瑚。

We can actually look to coral as a great example of what an individual can achieve because the coral reef is made up of initially one tiny polyp that grows into a colony and then collects and reforms that reef.

实际上，我们可以把珊瑚作为一个很好例子，来说明个人可以取得什么样成就，为珊瑚礁最初是由一个个小珊瑚成，这些小珊瑚长成一个珊瑚群，然后聚集起来，形成珊瑚礁。

It's coral polyps, and within that that coral structure that's kind of a hive or kind of the house for the coral polyps.

这是珊瑚，在这个珊瑚结构里面是珊瑚蜂巢或房子。

The answer is starfish. The crown-of-thorns starfish preys on coral and large outbreaks of these starfish can devastate reefs.

正确答案是海星。棘冠星鱼会捕食珊瑚，大量海星会摧毁珊瑚。

Reefs are the hard skeletons left at the bottom of the sea by small marine creatures called polyps.

而礁石则是珊瑚这种小型海洋生物遗留在海底坚硬骨架。

A relative of both coral polyps and jellyfish, anemones have their own partner to help make life easier...clownfish.

相比于珊瑚和水母而言，为了让生存更加容易，海葵有它自己伙伴… … 小丑鱼。

Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.

皮普看见了无数上帝一般无所不在珊瑚，从水天穹中升起巨大星体。

The polyps then form the larger structure of a reef.

这些珊瑚后便形成了大型珊瑚礁。

They do this so that they can eat the coral polyps and algae inside.

这样它们就能吃到珊瑚和里面海藻了。

Polyps spend their lives filtering microscopic particles in the clear waters.

珊瑚不停地过滤着清澈海水中细微粒子。